British Salonika Army

After the armistice in November 1918, it was disbanded, but component units became the newly formed Army of the Black Sea, and General Milne remained in command.

[1] The Army was formed in Salonika under Lieutenant-General Sir Bryan Mahon to oppose Bulgarian advances in the region as part of the Macedonian front.

[3] In May 1916 Lieutenant-General George Milne replaced Mahon as commander of the Army.

It eventually comprised two corps and as the Army of the Black Sea remained in place until 1921.

[4] The dead of the British Salonika Army are commemorated by the Doiran Memorial.

Men of the Middlesex Yeomanry move down a winding dirt track into the Struma Valley during the summer of 1916.