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- ↑ "Medal of Honor Recipients". United States Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- 1 2 "TYRRELL, WILLIAM GEORGE". Congressional Medal of Honor Society. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
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