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- ↑ "St Marks School (Pre-Imperial Service College)". Royal Windsor Forum.
- ↑ “Prince Alexander of Teck in Memory of Lord Kitchener” in Land and Water, Volume 9 (Country Gentleman Publishing Company, 1916), p. 23
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