"Gardening in Salonika: World War I in the Balkans" Topic
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| Tango01 | 17 May 2018 12:38 p.m. PST |
"The Germans mocked it as their largest prisoner-of-war camp, and French Premier Georges Clemenceau was hardly less withering in his opinion of the Allied stronghold at Salonika, Greece. "What are they doing?" he demanded. "Digging! Then let them be known as ‘the gardeners of Salonika.'" For the one million men who made up the Army of the Orient represented the Allies' most polyglot force—British, French, Arab, African, Indochinese, Foreign Legionnaires, Serbs, Russians, Italians, and Greeks—it was no laughing matter. Together they languished for three years around the dreary Greek port in what military historian Brig. Gen. S.L.A. Marshall later termed "without a doubt the most ponderous and illogical campaign of World War I." During that time, they experienced 225 days of hard fighting while enduring some of the worst political infighting and the highest disease rate of the war…."
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| Timbo W | 17 May 2018 3:01 p.m. PST |
Interesting Armand, you don't hear much about the Salonika campaign very often, but my great-uncle Tom Morgan was killed there. |
| khanscom | 17 May 2018 5:06 p.m. PST |
"The Gardeners of Salonika" by Alan Palmer is a pretty good overview of the campaign. |
Roderick Robertson  | 18 May 2018 9:46 a.m. PST |
My grandmother left Salonika with her family just before the war broke out. |
| Tango01 | 18 May 2018 10:22 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile) Amicalement
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