Mount Olympus from Summerhill camp Salonica, October, 1917. Summerhill (or Summer Hill) Camp was a British infantry training base about five miles from Salonica.
Mount Olympus from Summerhill Camp Oct 1917Salonica, October, 1917.
"The recall of Sarrail implied far more than the displacement of one individual. Guillaumat reached Salonika on December 22 [1917], only a few hours after Sarrail left. Quietly but firmly his hand-selected staff officers were weeded out and sent after their fallen idol as speedily as possible. . . . For one reason or another, the French command was fielding a new team."
Until December 10, 1917, General Maurice Sarrail commanded an Allied force on the Salonica Front in Greece that included French, British, Serbian, Russian, and Italian troops, as well as a battalion of Montenegrin soldiers. His offensive in May, 1917 had been an abject failure, in part because of failures in communications between units of the joint army. A Republican, with strong political support in Paris, Sarrail was removed by the new Prime Minister and Minister of War Georges Clemenceau. General Adolphe Guillaumat would begin preparing for the 1918 campaign.
The Gardeners of Salonika by Alan Palmer, page 169, copyright © 1965 by A. W. Palmer, publisher: Simon and Schuster, publication date: 1965
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