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- 1 2 Shores, Christopher; Franks, Norman; Guest, Russell (1990). Above the Trenches : A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces, 1915-1920 . Grub Street. pp. 162-3. ISBN 978-0919195110.
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