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- The Salonika campaign (1915-1918) was fought between the Allies and Central Powers. Major participants included: Allies: France, Greece (1917-1918), Italy (1916-1918), Montenegro (1915-1916), Russian Empire (1915-1917), Serbia, United Kingdom Central Powers: Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, German Empire, Ottoman Empire (1916-1917)
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By March 1917 the British Salonika Force (BSF) under General George Milne held 90 miles (144 km) of front, including the key strategic position at Doiran. Sarrail launched an offensive in April 1917, with French, Italian, Russian and Serbian troops. In support, the BSF attempted to capture Bulgarian positions around Doiran.
French forces and Lieutenant-General Sir Bryan Mahon’s 10th (Irish) Division, exhausted after service at Gallipoli, began landing at Salonika on 5 October 1915. View this object. Wounded being sent to hospital on a light railway, 1916. View this object. Using a Vickers gun against aircraft, Salonika, 1916.
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.
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In terms of military forces engaged, the Salonika Campaign was perhaps the most diverse of the First World War, as shown in the Christmas card produced in 1916 (right). By 1917 the Allies fielded 600,000 men in six national contingents: British, French, Greek, Italian, Russian and Serbian.
BACK. The Salonika Campaign. On the 5th October 1915 the first British and French troops landed on the Greek port in Salonika (now called Thessaloniki). During the almost three year campaign, the British Salonika Force (BSF), French, Greek, Italian, Russian and Serbian contingents fought together at various points. The Campaign.
Situation 20 April 1916. The advance from the entrenched camp began in April 1916. British forces shown in red. 7th Mounted Brigade and 66th Infantry Brigade have reached the area south of Lake Doiran (Dojran), with French forces on their left. The British line links up as far as the Gulf of Orfano.
After preparing the port of Salonika for defence, the troops moved up country. During 1916, further Allied contingents of Serbian, Italian and Russian troops arrived and offensive operations began. These culminated in the fall of Monastir to Franco-Serb forces during November.
