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- ↑ Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 206
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- ↑ "Maralinga: The chilling expose of our secret nuclear shame and betrayal of our troops and country by Frank Walker - Books".
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- ↑ Walker, Frank (28 July 2015), Commandos : Heroic and Deadly ANZAC Raids in World War II, Sydney, N.S.W. Hachette Australia (published 2015), ISBN 978-0-7336-3153-5
- ↑ Walker, Frank (25 July 2017), Traitors : How Australia and its Allies Betrayed our Anzacs and let Nazi and Japanese War Criminals Go Free, Sydney, N.S.W. Hachette Australia (published 2017), ISBN 978-0-7336-3717-9
- ↑ Walker, Frank (17 December 2019), The Scandalous Freddie McEvoy: The true story of the swashbuckling Australian rogue, Sydney, N.S.W. Hachette Australia (published 2018), ISBN 978-0-7336-3987-6
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