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- 1 2 "Boyd Davies Oxlade". classicwallabies.com.au.
- ↑ "Boyd Oxlade In R.A.A.F." Daily News . 5 January 1940. p. 9 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Boyd Davies Oxlade". www.familysearch.org.