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SOURCES

WAR DIARIES and other official documents have provided the framework only; this account has been prepared chiefly from interviews and correspondence with dozens of men who took part in the action. Where their contributions have been directly quoted the author's debt to them is explicit. Among others whose help has not thus been acknowledged are: B. Campbell, J. V. Elliott, K. B. Neilsen, L. M. Nelley, F. R. Porter, R. S. Tappin, T. G. Taylor, G. Thomason, R. T. K. Thomson, and D. A. Walton. Colonels H. G. Burton and G. J. McNaught have been particularly helpful.