ABSTRACT
This chapter links some of the experiences of both sides and to chronicle briefly the recent history of the village and a century of mutual respect and collaboration between the inhabitants of Guvesne/Assiros and strangers from the other side of Europe. One cannot imagine that the Guvesne base was any more attractive than any other tented encampment of the period. The Second Balkan War, a few months later, when Bulgarians tried to gain territory they saw as rightfully theirs after the First Balkan War, saw a major battle between Greeks and Bulgarians near Lachanas only a few kilometres up the road to the north of Guvesne. The British troops arrived at Guvesne in July 1916 in consequence of the expansion of the front from the Salonica 'Birdcage' to pre-empt a Bulgarian attack. The Serres road, the wartime life-line of the British Forces at the front, could not have been built and maintained without help of the villagers of Guvesne.
