If so, this fascinating album and diary – for sale on eBay – may be just the thing for you! Serbia 1916-17 – The WW1 diary of Kathleen May Jenner Davies of Gloucestershire, covering her time near the front line as a volunteer with the Serbian Relief Fund. Continue reading “Do you have a spare £1750?”
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Book : Take Me Back to Blighty
This time a book on the Salonika campaign and nothing but! I’m not sure how I missed this, which was first published by Tommies Guides in January 2017, but it’s just popped up on eBay which seems to be selling lots of new copies at various prices. If you can tell us more about it, please add a comment to this post. Continue reading “Book : Take Me Back to Blighty”
Book – Chapel Street: ‘The Bravest Little Street in England’
It’s that time of year when thoughts turn to Christmas presents, whether for others or yourself. My thanks go to SCS Editor Tim Mole, for alerting me to this book which is unusual among the plethora of First Word War books published during the centenary in that Salonika gets more than a passing mention! Continue reading “Book – Chapel Street: ‘The Bravest Little Street in England’”
A date for your diary : SCS Annual Meeting 2018
For a variety of reasons, the 2018 SCS annual meeting in central London will be on Saturday 13th October. Once again this will take the form of a wreath-laying at the Cenotaph, followed by the meeting and talk at the Civil Service Club. Full details, including a booking form, will be in the April 2018 issue of The New Mosquito. There will also be announcements here and in The New Balkan News (email newsletter).
Sid & Elsie : love across the miles and down the years 5
Another card and poem sent by Sid in Salonika in 1917, to his wife Elsie. This mentions their first meeting ‘by the tower’ – could that have been Blackpool Tower?
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Sid & Elsie : love across the miles and down the years 4
Another card and poem from Sid to Elsie in 1917.
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Faces of Salonika : photo album for sale
My thanks go to Brian Goodison-Blanks of Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood Limited, Fine Art Valuers and Auctioneers in Exeter, for telling us of a splendid photograph album which will be in their Sporting and Collectors auction on 15 and 16 November. Continue reading “Faces of Salonika : photo album for sale”
‘Tommies’ back on BBC Radio Four
‘Tommies’, the BBC Radio Four series which dramatises individual days of the First World War from original sources, is back on with repeats of programmes originally broadcast over the past twelve months. Continue reading “‘Tommies’ back on BBC Radio Four”
Sid & Elsie : love across the miles and down the years 3
Birthday greetings from Sid in Salonika to his wife, Elsie, who he also called ‘Chips’.
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Remembering R4/0666436 Pte Jesse Willoughby, ASC
It is not my intention for this website to become an advertising outlet for eBay, but when items belonging to a named member of the BSF appear for sale, it would be a shame not to give him a mention. It always saddens me when these things are no longer in the possession of the family, but hopefully these will go to a good, appreciative home.
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Salonika Campaign Society, 1915-1918 