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- ↑ McBain, Janet. "'No longer need we envy the privileged few who visit the battlefields': A Glasgow exhibitor's initiative, 1917". earlycinema.gla.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
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- ↑ Munro, Neil, "The Fair", in Osborne, Brian D. & Armstrong, Ronald (eds.) (2002), Erchie, My Droll Friend, Birlinn Limited, Edinburgh, pp. 251 - 255, ISBN 978-1-84158202-3
