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- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- ↑ "Woolwich nominations". Manchester Guardian. 2 November 1943.
- ↑ "Woolwich seat". Manchester Guardian. 11 November 1943.
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack (1945), p.306
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