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- ↑ "Hong Kong December 1941". The Royal Artillery 1939-45. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
- ↑ "5th Regiment Royal Artillery". armymoduk.
- ↑ The role of 93 in Afghanistan (3 ed.). Gurk Habe. 2012. pp. 19–142.