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- ↑ The Silent Picture, Issues 5–16 (1969), p. 34: "A man called Rex Davis; this was the first of my scripts that he had acted in. He wasn't an actor, he was a boxer, an amateur boxer, and that was what we required in The Knockout."
- ↑ "No. 8457". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 July 1918. p. 30801.
- ↑ Napper, L. (2015). The Great War in Popular British Cinema of the 1920s: Before Journey's End. Springer. p. 123. ISBN 9780230371712 . Retrieved 7 June 2017.
- ↑ McFarlane, Brian (2016). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. Oxford University Press. p. 188. ISBN 9781526111975 . Retrieved 7 June 2017.
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