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Booklet: The Mosquito, ‘Salonika Memories- I’. Subtitled, ‘The Journey to Taranto’. Contains an account from Miss D Frampton, a servicewoman at the 43rd General Hospital. With other articles, advertisements, and contributions by the editor and others. Article dated 1918, but a dinner to be held in 1936 is mentioned to have been cancelled due to the death of King George V, implying the article is in reality from the World War Two era. From papers collected by Capt Eric Richard Hanby Holmes, 1913-1941. Hanby Holmes served with the Artist’s Rifles and 6th Bn The Durham Light Infantry. By the end of the war Hanby Holmes was attached to the Royal Engineers for Army Signal Service. Papers were collected primarily while serving on the Salonika Front during World War One (1914-1918).

World War One, Salonika (1914-1918)