Images Dated 2nd November 2004

A Serbian Dragoon regiment in the Battle of Borenitza

A Serbian Dragoon regiment, part of the Allied army based in the Greek port of Salonika, are pictured riding to repel an attack by the Bulgarian army, October 1916. At the beginning of the war the Serbian army had successfully resisted invasion by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, however, a combined offensive by the Central Powers, including the newly allied Bulgaria, forced the Serbian government and army to escape into neighbouring Albania and exile in December 1915

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

A French heavy-gun battery on the Macedonian border

A French heavy-gun battery on the Macedonian border A French heavy-gun battery is pictured moving uphill through lines of barbed wire on the Balkan front, October 1916. The battery was part of the Allied army based in the Greek port of Salonika who were engaged in fighting the Bulgarian army, who had joined the central powers in the invasion of Serbia in October 1915

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans