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- 1 2 Charles Mold at cricketarchive.com
- ↑ War Office: Soldiers’ Documents, First World War ‘Burnt Documents’ (Microfilm Copies); (The National Archives Microfilm Publication WO363); Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies; The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England.
- ↑ match list at cricketarchive.com Archived June 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine