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——— ‘The Poet under fire: Four poets of World War I’, Military History Journal 7 (1), June 1986
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——— ‘The South Africans at Delville Wood’, Military History Journal 7 (2), December 1986
PERSONAL INTERVIEWS
Author’s interview with the late William R. Thorne, Oudtshoorn, 1976
ELECTRONIC SOURCES
http://africanhistory.about.com
http://patrickwright.polimekanos.com
www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/battle-of-the-somme