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The Macedonian front, also known as the Salonica front (after Thessaloniki), was a military theatre of World War I formed as a result of an attempt by the Allied Powers to aid Serbia, in the autumn of 1915, against the combined attack of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria.
Wreckage of LZ 55 on the marshes near mouth of the Varder River during the Salonika Campaign. Zeppelin LZ 55 (Army tactical number LZ 85) was a P-class Zeppelin of the Imperial German Army in World War I. It was shot down by the old British pre-dreadnough battleship HMS Agamemnon in 1916 during Salonika campaign
The Mediterranean Expeditionary 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, under the command of General Sir Ian Hamilton, at the beginning of the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War.
Mary Alice Blair (1880–1962) was a New Zealand doctor who organised hospitals in Malta, Serbia and Salonika during the First World War. She was in charge of Serbian hospital evacuation to Corsica where she was responsible for the thousands of refugees.
Allied collaboration: an Italian captain, a Russian lieutenant, a Serb colonel, a French lieutenant, and a Greek gendarme. The Allied Army of the Orient (AAO) (French: Armées alliées en Orient) was the name of the unified command over the multi-national allied armed forces on the Salonika front during the First World War.
The marketing campaign, which features posters of tourists awestruck by New Zealand’s rugged landscapes alongside the now infamous slogan, cost NZ$500,000 ($286,000) and will target potential ...
In an announcement Sunday, officials said they were spending 500,000 New Zealand dollars ($287,000) on the campaign, which is aimed at visitors from neighboring Australia, New Zealand’s biggest ...
This prevented a link-up with French forces under General Maurice Sarrail in Salonika. [16] The Central Powers, led by Field Marshal August von Mackensen, aimed to trap the Serbian army in Kosovo and force a final, decisive battle. [23] The severing of the Niš–Skopje–Salonika railway further isolated Serbia from its allies, worsening the ...