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The Serbians had at last realized that the enemy were out to finish her as a nation, and the only way to save herself was to run away. Serbian officials not only ordered the Army to retreat out of Serbia, but also boys that could be future soldiers.

For us who were with them, the end of our journey was home. The sadest aspect of the Great Retreat is the boys that accompanied the soldiers.

Following the October 1915 invasion of Serbia during World War I by the German, Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian armies, the Serbian army retreated through Albania, an event sometimes called the Albanian golgotha (Serbian: Албанска голгота, romanized: Albanska golgota). Facing total destruction but refusing to come to terms, the government and the supreme command made the decision, on 23 No Roughly 250,000 military and civilians that sought to reach that coast did not make it. 1918, Scottish Women's Hospital, Royaumont and Villers-Coterets, France, until the Armistice.If you would like to get in touch with me, Aleksandra, please feel free to contact me at The Serbian contribution to the Allied victory in World War One was essential, and here at " Until we were nearly there, when one of our number was shot through the lungs - an accidental shot, fired by an irate farmer after some flying refugees who were stealing his horses.The injured girl was taken to a Serbian dressing station about eight miles back along the road, with two doctors and a nurse; after which the rest of us tramped unhappily on, knowing that they would inevitably be taken prisoners, which they were two days later.They were well treated, however, by the Austrians, and when the girl who had been shot was sufficiently recovered to undertake the journey, they were all passed through Vienna and Switzerland, and so home to England. They lived and died for their King and Homeland, they were loyal Allies, and they were victorious.World War One postcard - the Great Serbian Retreat through Albania / Winter 1915/16"The field hospital had been busy for eight months trying to stem the awful tide of death which was sweeping over the country, and, together with other volunteer units, had pretty well succeeded.The typhus, sinister legacy of the Austrians when they evacuated Belgrade at Christmas 1914, had been carried to the farthest comer of Serbia by soldiers going home on leave - to the little farms and cottages where, under Turkish domination for hundreds of years, the ideas of hygiene and sanitation were practically undeveloped. The single railway line from Belgrade to Salonika had been cut the first day after the declaration of war by the Bulgarians; and there was the life-line, as it were, severed, for on that railway line all the stores, men, and ammunition were transported.We started off with bullock-wagons with as much of the hospital equipment as we could carry, and for three weeks we trekked south - a long, slow procession of springless carts, each drawn by oxen, moving deliberately at the rate of two miles an hour - day or night was all one.Several times the unit halted, hoping that the retreat was stayed, for all the telephone wires were down, and no one knew exactly what was happening. 1916-1917, Corsica, S.R.F. It seemed as though there never had been and never again could be anything else than rain, rain, rain. "Miss M. I. Tatham served (1915) with Stobart Field Hospital (Serbian Relief Unit), Kraguyevatz, Serbia. The fire smouldered in the middle of the mud floor, the smoke escaping through a hole in the roof - and round the fire squatted the family - unto the third and fourth generation!Around them again, the refugees, soldiers, and nurses, and the livestock of the little farm. Many of those that weren't captured and missing were buried along the way in the mountains of Albania, wherever they had fallen for the last time.
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