Item ROBERTSON, WR 4/4/24 - Telegram from Lieutenant General George Milne to Robertson, 16 May 1916, about poor communications and inadequate training for troops in the Balkans

Telegram (GC44) to Robertson from temporary Lt Gen George Francis Milne, General Officer Commanding in Chief, British Salonika Force, on lack of communication between himself and French Gen Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail, Commander in Chief, Allied Army of the Orient, concerning the latter's plan of operation for a Balkan offensive; the lack of adequate training of the troops at Salonika, Greece; the extent of Sarrail's control over Allied troops. 1p.