Our forgotten volunteers : Australians and New Zealanders with Serbs in World War One / Bojan Pajic. Cover title: Our forgotten volunteers : Australians & New Zealanders with Serbs in World War One

Collection type	Library
Author	Pajic, Bojan, author.;
Call Number	F 940.40994 P151o
Document type	Monograph
Year	2018. 018.
Pagination	xxi, 487 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 28 cm.
Publisher	Arcadia,
Note	Includes bibliographical references and index. "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 ?Ma cedonian? 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 orde rlies 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 bo ok. 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."--Publisher's summary.
Place made	North Melbourne :

Abstract

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 adva nce 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 Fro nt, 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 Se rbs -- Annexes.