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- ↑ "How Defence Works" (PDF). Ministry of Defence. 14 December 2015.
- ↑ Antony Beevor, Inside the British Army, Corgi Books, 1990, 186-7.
- ↑ "No. 63325". The London Gazette (Supplement). 20 April 2021. p. 7239.