British XVI Corps was formed in Salonika in January 1916 under Lieutenant General George Milne.

[1] Milne was starved of resources by Sir William Robertson who considered all operations outside the Western Front to be "side shows".

The campaign developed into a battle for position with trenches and emplacements from which the General Officer Commanding (Lieutenant-General Charles Briggs) undertook limited actions to capture Bulgarian and Turkish positions in a river valley that was infested with mosquitos.

[4] British operations in the Balkans Campaign were costly: the allies lost over 7,000 troops at the Battle of Doiran in September 1918 alone.

[7] As initially created, the corps contained the following divisions in addition to the usual supporting troops:[7] Commanders included: