From "The Mosquito", issue no 3, September 1928. I would have liked to have prepared a paper on this journal for the Thessaloniki Centenary of Liberation conference (October 18-21, 2012). Alas, no time.
The first issue was published in September, 1927. The journal was in continuous publication for over forty years. The Salonika Reunion Association (a veterans' association) existed from 1924-1969. The journal published many fascinating photographs and reminiscences of the campaign.
Stanley Spencer went to Salonika in August 1916. One of his great paintings of the campaign ("Travoys Arriving with Wounded...")
and The Resurrection of the Soldiers
NB James Pettifer has informed me of another interesting conference at the University of Oxford, on The Balkan Wars (1912-1913), to mark the 100th Anniversary. Dates, 17-18 October 2012, at the Rees Davies Room, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford. All welcome, but numbers are limited, you need to reserve a place.
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