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- ↑ "No. 29364". The London Gazette . 12 November 1915. p. 11174.
- ↑ Brown, Andrew L. (2022). Building the army's backbone: Canadian non-commissioned officers in the Second World War. Vancouver: UBC Press. p. 50. ISBN 9780774866965.
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