World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Balkan Peninsula
To sum up, the troops of the A.F.O. and of the I Serbian Army were
supplied by the Monastir railway as far as Florina and Sakulevo, by
the Florina-Armensko décauville and the Pisoderi telepheric, and the
Sakulevo-Brod décauville with its extensions; the II Serbian Army by
the railway as far as Vertekop and thence by décauville; the I Group
of Divisions by the Vardar railway to Karasuli and thence by road;
the British XII Corps by rail to Sarigöl and Kilindir and thence by
décauville; the British XVI Corps, as long as it was on the Struma, by
rail to Guvesne and thence by road to the Struma, whence a décauville
reached various sectors; the brigade on the lower Struma, by rail to
Arakli and thence by décauville. When the XVI Corps was moved to the
area east of Lake Doiran, it was supplied by the same routes as the XII
Corps, while the communications to the Struma now served the Greek I
Corps. Everywhere the inadequacy of the railways was made good by the
excellent M.T. services, and this not only for the areas where there
were no railways at all, because the motor lorries helped to intensify
transport even towards sectors served by railways, the carrying
capacity of the latter being wholly inadequate to the immense needs of
the armies. The British and French had several thousand lorries, we had
about 400, the Greeks and Serbs were supplied by French and British
lorries.
If communications between the base at Salonica and the various
sectors of the front had been rendered fairly satisfactory, lateral
communications were extremely difficult, and this was particularly
felt during the September offensive, when it was frequently necessary
(though not so often as was expected beforehand) to transfer troops and
artillery from one sector to another.
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