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References
- 1 2 3 4 Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Marshal Sir Thomas Warne-Browne
- ↑ New A.O.C.-in-C, Maintenance Command Flight International, 20 October 1949
- ↑ Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
- ↑ The Peerage.com