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- ↑ Memorial: David Owen Norris WW1 Musical Stories - Royal College of Music War Memorial, BBC Radio 3, 4 July 2014
- ↑ The Musical Times, Vol. 63, No. 958 (December 1922), p. 872
- 1 2 Obituary, RCM Magazine No 14/3, Midsummer Term 1918, p. 81
- 1 2 3 4 5 Obituary, RCM Magazine No 13/3, Midsummer Term 1917, pp. 81-84
- ↑ Obituary, RCM Magazine No 16/2, Easter Term 1920, p. 22
- ↑ Copley, Ian. George Butterworth and his Music : a centennial tribute (1985)
- ↑ Obituary, RCM Magazine No 11/1, Christmas Term 1915, pp. 19-20
- 1 2 Obituary, RCM Magazine No 14/1, Christmas Term 1917, pp. 21-2
- 1 2 3 Obituary, RCM Magazine No 14/2, Easter Term 1918, pp. 54-55
- ↑ Behind the Lines: the music and composers of the first world war
- ↑ Rosen, Carole. The Goossens: A Musical Century (1993)
- ↑ Obituary, RCM Magazine No 15/2, Easter Term 1919, p. 30
- 1 2 Obituary, RCM Magazine No 11/3, Midsummer Term 1915, pp. 82-85
- ↑ 'Second Lieutenant Edward Mason', Imperial War Museum
- 1 2 3 Obituary, RCM Magazine No 13/1, Christmas Term 1916, pp. 24-25
- 1 2 Obituary, RCM Magazine No 15/1, Christmas Term 1919, p. 34
- ↑ 'Francis Purcell Warren', War Composers: The Music of World War 1
- ↑ 'SS Ceramic loss of DEMS crew', Royal Marines History
- 1 2 3 4 'On Active Service', RCM Magazine No 39/3 (1943), p. 103
- ↑ Obituary, RCM Magazine, Vol. 41 No 3 (1945), p. 77
- ↑ Obituary, RCM Magazine, Vol. 42 No 1 (1946), pp. 12-13