It was a pleasure to hear from Prof. PhD Fabio Cotifava from Mantova in Italy recently. With a group of like-minded friends Fabio has created a website dedicated to the Salonika campaign, to promote the campaign in Italy where, as in the UK, it is largely forgotten. Continue reading “Fronte Macedone 1916-1918 : an Italian perspective”
Tag: Resources
Useful resources for the Salonika campaign enthusiast.
An invaluable resource for the Salonika enthusiast
This is the resource that no one interested in the Salonika campaign can afford to be without! Continue reading “An invaluable resource for the Salonika enthusiast”
New book: ‘Daring All Things – The Autobiography of George Kendall (1881-1961)’
To be published on 15 November 2016 by Helion & Company, Daring All Things is a unique and extraordinary autobiography, published for the first time 55 years after its completion shortly before Rev. George Kendall died suddenly in 1961, aged 79. Continue reading “New book: ‘Daring All Things – The Autobiography of George Kendall (1881-1961)’”
The New Mosquito : the Society’s Journal
There are many benefits to membership of the Salonika Campaign Society – you can find them listed here – but an especially valuable, tangible one is our journal which is produced twice a year, in April and September. The New Mosquito started life in April 2000 as a photocopied newsletter of just nine pages; now it is a glossy, professionally printed journal of at least 28 pages – the Struma Special was an impressive 38 – and when appropriate (and funds permit) it includes colour pictures! Continue reading “The New Mosquito : the Society’s Journal”
A novel approach to the Salonika Campaign
The Birdcage
Whilst novels set on the Western Front are not uncommon, those with a background of the Salonika campaign are even rarer than home leave was for members of the BSF, so it has been a pleasure to see the publication – during this centenary year – of The Birdcage by Clive Aslet.
Published by Sandstone Press on 16 June 2016, you can find out more about the author and the book at the publisher’s website. Continue reading “A novel approach to the Salonika Campaign”
Welcome to the new SCS website
Welcome to the new Salonika Campaign Society website. This has been growing gradually since the previous site ‘went west’ in the summer, but it is only now that I feel it warrants a proper introduction. Continue reading “Welcome to the new SCS website”
Salonika Campaign Society, 1915-1918 