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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.
The Doiran Memorial is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission war memorial that is both a battlefield memorial and a memorial to the missing. [2] It honours the dead of the British Salonika Force as well as commemorating by name the 2171 missing dead of that force who fell in fighting on the Macedonian front during the First World War in the period 1915–1918.
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.
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 campaign began in the night of 28–29 July with Austria-Hungary bombarding Belgrade. On 12 August, the Austro-Hungarian forces, under General Oskar Potiorek , initiated their first offensive into Serbia when the Balkanstreitkräfte , consisting of the 5th Army and 6th Army , attacked Serbia from the west and north.
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
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Australian and New Zealand servicemen: mostly May to August 1915: Battle of Lone Pine: 1925: John James Burnet: no official unveiling Port Tewfik Memorial. CWGC. Egypt: Port Suez: 3,727: British Indian Army: 1915 to 1918: Sinai and Palestine Campaign: May 1926: John James Burnet