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- ↑ "28th Division". The Long Long Trail. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
- ↑ Becke, Major A. F. (1935). Order of Battle of Divisions Part 1. The Regular British Divisions. London: HMSO. p. 106. ISBN 1-871167-09-4.