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- ↑ Messenger, Charles (16 March 1994). A History of British Infantry: For Love of Regiment, Volume 2, 1915-1994. p. 156. ISBN 9780850524222.
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack 1956, p. 471
- ↑ "Welsh Infantry Brigade Depot". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) . 8 May 1958. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack 1969, p. 473