British Salonika Army information

The British Salonika Army was a field army of the British Army during World War I. After the armistice in November 1918, it was disbanded, but component...

Salonika Army, arrived in Salonika in October 1916, too late to prevent the Serbian Army from retreating into Albania and Greece. French, British and Russian...

prevented the withdrawal of the Serbian army to the Greek border and Thessaloniki (Salonika). The Allies (Britain and France) had repeatedly promised to...

d'Orient (1915–19): 8 divisions British Salonika Army: 6 divisions The Serbian armies were corps sized formations. First Army, under command of Živojin Mišić...

Army (originally the Reserve Army) Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF) Dardanelles Army Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) British Salonika Army (BSF)...

Scots (in northern Russia). Cyclists, as well as cavalry, of the British Salonika Army were used to patrol villages in the Struma Valley, in order to deny...

series of British hand grenades which were designed by William Mills. They were the first modern fragmentation grenades used by the British Army and saw...

headquarters when the second Mediterranean front opened at Salonika. Prior to this, all British (and Dominion) units in the Mediterranean came under GHQ...

Gough – Commander of the Fifth Army (1916–1918) George Milne – Commander of the British Salonika Army at the Salonika front (1916-1918f) The Earl of Cavan...

the French Army officer corps under the Third Republic before the war, and were the main reason why he was appointed to command at Salonika. At the start...

memorial and a memorial to the missing. It honours the dead of the British Salonika Force as well as commemorating by name the 2171 missing dead of that...

reaches back two thousand years. The city of Thessaloniki (also known as Salonika) housed a major Jewish community, mostly Eastern Sephardim, until the middle...

marching north. Subsequently, although the Greek army won the Battle of Giannitsa situated 40 km west of Salonika, Constantine's hesitation in capturing the...

Aware that Greece was vulnerable to the British Fleet, he advocated a course of neutrality. In early 1915 the British offered Greece "territorial concessions...

Force (MEF) was the part of the British Army during World War I that commanded all Allied forces at Gallipoli and Salonika. It was formed in March 1915,...

The British cavalry were the first British Army units to see action during the First World War. Captain Hornby of the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards...

services they have rendered".: 4  In 1916, the British Salonika Army was formed to support the Serbian Army fighting German, Austrian and Bulgarian forces...

direct confrontation between Greek nationalist forces in Cyprus against British colonial forces. Republicanism: Despite Venizelos' moderation regarding...

and then as a translator with the British Salonika Army. Higham was born in Kesari, Punjab, then part of the British Raj, to English parents Thomas and...

of the Greek government-in-exile with some units of the Greek Army and the allied British. During the same month, he became prime minister in the Greek...

The Indian Army during World War II, a British force also referred to as the British Indian Army, began the war, in 1939, numbering just under 200,000...

receiving the rank of Captain in 1909. In June 1911, Kountouriotis was sent to Britain, to take control of the newly-commissioned Georgios Averof, following the...

signal section and a Royal Army Medical Corps field ambulance attached. Other brigades that served in the British Salonika Army, had a Section Ammunition...

to sign the conscription, accusing him of treason for the invasion in Salonika and forcing him to resign for a second time within that year (1915). Eight...