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- ↑ "1857 Jamaica Almanac". Jamaican Family Research. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
- 1 2 Ellis, A. B. (1885). The History of the First West India Regiment. London: Chapman and Hall.
- ↑ Perfect, David (2016). Historical Dictionary of the Gambia. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. xxxii.
- ↑ "Lieutenant Colonel H. Anton". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
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