1918 ARCHIVE OF HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPH LETTERS [ALS] FROM SALONIKA GREECE 'THE FORGOTTEN FRONT' TO EALING AVENUE IN LONDON

On offer is a modest archive of original handwritten letters from what is known as the "Forgotten Front" of World War I being Salonica. There are five letters here from Lieut. Halstead, Royal Army Medical Corps, written from Greece/Salonica to his wife during the great Doiran campaign of autumn 1918. Letters are: Sept. 19, 1918 (3 pages), Oct. 1, 1918 (4 pages), Oct. 4, 1918 (3 pages), Oct. 18, 1918 (4 pages) and Oct. 29, 1918 (2 pages). They detail a range of era related history and conditions of this RAMC officer: lack of leave and post on this front, the September offensive and the pursuit into Bulgaria, Bulgarian artillery bombardments and aerial activity, frenzy of casualties at the casualty clearing station, the Spanish influenza pandemic of which there are several references etc. Super content. Overall VG.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; Influenza Pandemic, RAMC, Royal Army Medical Corps, Macedonia, World War One, WWI, Greece, Greek, Modern Greek History, Salonika, Thessaloniki, Thessalonika, Bulgaria, Hellenic, the Forgotten Front, Hellas, Levant, Movement of National Defence, Personal, Memoir, Handwritten, hand written, autograph, autographs, signed, letters, document, documents, manuscript, manuscripts, writers, writer, author, holograph, personal, Americana, ANTIQUITÉ, CONTRAT, VÉLIN, MANUSCRIT, PAPIER ANTIKE, BRIEF, PERGAMENT, DOKUMENT,