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- ↑ "No. 28079". The London Gazette . 12 November 1907. p. 7483.
- ↑ "No. 28659". The London Gazette . 1 November 1912. p. 8021.
- ↑ "Peer's Son Killed – Motor-Cycle Accident on Salisbury Plain". The Times . 12 October 1920. p. 7.