The Serb resurgent, a newly hatched eagle chick triumphant over the Hapsburg eagle. A bi-cephalic eagle was (and is again) the most prominent element on the Serbian coat of arms.
Le Serbe The SerbReverse:Editions 'Aux Alliés' Paris.Helio. L. Géligné, 255. Bd. Raspail, ParisVisé Paris No. 16'For the Allies' Publishers Paris.A message from Marcel to his parents
". . . it was in the early hours of September 19 [1916] that the Drina Division fought their way to the Bulgarian eyrie and sent back to Batachin fifty prisoners as testimony to their achievement. Below them the Serbs could see that the Bulgarians had not yet accepted the loss of the Kajmakcalan. Such a key bastion could never be lightly abandoned; but, for the moment, the Serbian flag flew once more over a few hundred yards of Serbian soil."
Victorious but weakened by Austria-Hungary's invasions in 1914, decimated by typhus in 1915, and overwhelmed by the 1915 invasion by Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Bulgaria, Serbia's government and the remains of its army fled to the Adriatic Sea and eventual transport by its allies to the island of Corfu to recuperate. In the spring and summer of 1916 it joined the Allied forces on the Salonika Front in Greece, forces that had originally deployed to Greece to aid Serbia. In their preemptive attack on August 17, the Bulgarians had struck primarily at the Serbian sector of the Allied line, and drove the Serbs back. The Serbian success on September 19 was a further step in taking their country back.
The Gardeners of Salonika by Alan Palmer, page 81, copyright © 1965 by A. W. Palmer, publisher: Simon and Schuster, publication date: 1965
1916-09-19, September, 1916, Serbia
