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- ↑ "Ernest Chambers – Rugby Union – Players and Officials – ESPN Scrum". ESPN scrum.
- ↑ Neil Roy, '100 Years of the Blues. The Bedfordshire Times Centenary History of Bedford RUFC', (Bedford, 1986), p. 105
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