Our Forgotten Volunteers : Australians and New Zealanders with Serbs in World War One.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pajic, Bojan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Australian.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Participation, New Zealand.

World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Serbian.

World War, 1914-1918--Serbia.

World War, 1914-1918--Medical care--Serbia.

World War, 1914-1918--Australia--Biography.

World War, 1914-1918--New Zealand--Biography.

Voluntarism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (516 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Our Forgotten Volunteers

Place of Publication:

Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty, Limited, 2019.

Summary:

Australian and New Zealand volunteers were already in Serbia, treating wounded Serbian soldiers and fighting a typhus epidemic, before the ANZACs landed at Gallipoli in 1915. The Gallipoli Campaign sealed Serbia's fate, however, as Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria moved to secure a land supply corridor to Turkey through Serbia. Australians and New Zealanders accompanied the Serbian Army on a deadly retreat over wintry mountains to the Adriatic coast. When the fighting shifted to the Salonika or 'Macedonian' Front, many served there with the British Army, the Royal Flying Corps, two AIF units and six Royal Australian Navy destroyers in the Adriatic and Aegean Seas. Some died in action, others from disease. Several hundred doctors, nurses and orderlies treated the wounded and sick in an Australian-led volunteer hospital and in British and New Zealand Army hospitals. The author Miles Franklin was a medical orderly supporting the Serbian Army; her little-known memoir is quoted extensively in this book. Fifteen hundred Australians and New Zealanders served on this little known yet crucial battlefront. Now for the first time we have an engaging and comprehensive account of what they experienced and achieved in the Great War.

Contents:

Mobilising for service in Serbia, 1914-1915

Prelude to war

In Serbia, 1914-1915

Typhus epidemic in Serbia, 1915

Invasion, capture and escape, 1915-1916

Withdrawal of king, government, army and civilians from Serbia, 1915-1916

Allied advance into Serbia, late 1915

In support of the Serbian Army, 1916-18

Australians and New Zealanders on the Salonika Front, 1915-1918

Australia and New Zealand medical staff serving with Australian, New Zealand and British forces on the Salonika Front, 19151919

Volunteers for the Serbian and Australian armies

The Australian Navy and merchant marine in the Adriatic and Mediterranean seas, 1914-1919

Breakthrough, 1918

After the war, 1918-22

Australians and New Zealanders decorated by Serbs

Annexes.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781922454713

1922454710

OCLC:

1243544305