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- ↑ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part Two: 1919–1939, pp. 83–84. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-07-01.)
- 1 2 Freeman, Douglas Percy, Wisden Obituaries – 2013, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack , 2014. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
- ↑ Kent Cricket saddened by the death of Doug Freeman – Kent’s Oldest Cricketer, Kent County Cricket Club, 2013-04-09. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
- ↑ Douglas Freeman, Boundaries, issue 10, p.11. The Professional Cricketers' Association, 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2018.