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- ↑ "Harry Birkhead" by Joh Groenwald in The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 Featuring Occupation and Siege Issues The Harry Birkhead Collection. Spink, London, 2014. p. 3.
- ↑ RDPSA, Philatelic Federation of South Africa, 2013. Retrieved 8 April 2013. Archived here.
