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- 1 2 3 US War memorial - Dudley Gilman Tucker - Retrieved July 11, 2013.
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- De Wolfe Howe, Mark Antony (1922). Harvard dead in the war against Germany. Vol. III. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.