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- ↑ "William John Gillespie". www.theaerodrome.com. Retrieved 6 February 2010.
- ↑ Above the Trenches: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915-1920. p. 167.
- ↑ "William John Gillespie". www.theaerodrome.com. Retrieved 6 February 2010.
