Recollections: Sources

The references and sources in the table below have been used in the construction of this website and are referenced from the pages where used.

Ref. #	Source
1	Miramar Ship Index: Subscription Website containing basic information about a very large number of merchant navy ships with search facilities based on ships name and official number.
2	Ubootwaffe.net Website: Website dedicated to WW2 U boats and their exploits. Unfortunately no longer available.
3	Uboat.net Website: Website dedicated to WW2 and WW1 U boats and includes information about ships damaged and sunk.
4	Convoyweb Convoy Database: An extensive and highly recommended Website that includes comprehensive information about WW2 convoys and other voyages of merchant ships and some information about ships that were lost.
5	Warsailors.com: Norwegian website that includes information about WW2 convoys.
6	Tom Proctor: Article included in BBC WW2 People’s War
7	Air of Authority: Website dedicated to the history of the RAF.
8	Wikipaedia entry: Vickers Wellington
9	244 Squadron 244 Squadron Newsletters
10	World Guns Website: Article about the Colt Browning M1895/14 machine gun, made by Marlin Corp
11	FirstWorldWar.com website: Article about the Marlin machine gun
12	Anderson, John: Nevil Shute and the DMWD, Available online at The Neville Shute Norway Foundation
13	Navweaps website: Site specialising in naval weaponry
14	Friends of HMCS Haida: Website dedicated to the last WW2 Tribal Class Destroyer
15	Guns Magazine: March 2000, Article by Robert Bruce: The Lewis Gun - Product Information
16	Sir Archibald Hunt: Britain's Merchant Navy, Odhams Press Limited (no publishing date but estimated at 1942-43 based on content)
17	Hague, Arnold (2003): The Allied Convoy System, 1939-1945 : Its Organization, Defence and Operation; Chatham Publishing, ISBN: 1861761473
18	Picture Stockton: Online Photographic Collection website
19	Thames Sailing Barge website: Page on Decima
20	Ahoy - Mac’s Web Log: Naval, Maritime, Australian History and More
21	WW2 People's War: WW2 People's War is an online archive of wartime memories contributed by members of the public and gathered by the BBC. The archive can be found at http://bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar
22	Australian War Memorial: Appendix from document regarding Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships
23	Hervey Benham: Down Tops'l, George G Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1951, ISBN 0 245 50661
24	HMSO (1947): British Vessels lost at sea 1939-45; reprinted by Patrick Stephens, Cambridge 1983 ISBN 0-85059 659 9
25	Wikipedia entry for Thomas Kelly GC
26	Bill Taylor's Memoir: My Unusual Voyage Aboard the Empress of Asia and the Aftermath
27	A History of the Fire Service in Epsom and Ewell
28	By courtesy of The Allen Collection
29	Provenance unknown
30	By courtesy of Chris Anderson
31	By courtesy of Anthony Bernthal
32	By courtesy of Wikipedia and Wikipedia Commons
33	By courtesy of Guy Freeman
34	By courtesy of Captain Carré
35	By courtesy of Richard Crow
36	By courtesy of the Tom Rayner Collection
37	By courtesy of the P & O Collection
38	By courtesy of the Australia War Memorial Collection
39	By courtesy of Kevin Patience
40	By courtesy of The British Library
41	By courtesy of Kinyarwanda Hope Magazine
42	By courtesy of Real Photographs Co. Ltd.
43	By courtesy of the State Library of Queensland
44	By courtesy of Philip Dilworth
45	By courtesy of naval-history.net
46	By courtesy of IndianVeterans.com
47	By courtesy of Google Earth
48	By courtesy of Dennis Lockyer
49	By courtesy of HMSLondon.co.uk
50	By courtesy of The Simon's Town Historical Society
51	By courtesy of Geoffrey Bamford
52	By courtesy of Stan Mayes
53	By courtesy of Donald Macfadyen
54	By courtesy of Google Street View
55	By courtesy of the State Library of Tasmania
56	By courtesy of the Old Worcester Association
57	By courtesy of Duncan Hawes
58	By courtesy of Australian War Memorial Nautical Collection
59	By courtesy of Old Ship Picture Galleries
60	By courtesy of Fire Brigades of Surrey Preservation Trust
61	By courtesy of The Daily Mail
62	By courtesy of Bomb Site - mapping the WW2 bomb census
63	By courtesy of London Fire
64	By courtesy of Tops'l Magazine
65	By courtesy of Roger Beckett
66	From Brian Watson's photograph and postcard collection
67	By courtesy of Britain from Above
68	By courtesy of Clive Ketley
69	By courtesy of Historical RFA
70	By courtesy of Heidi Jaggs
71	By courtesy of The Gravesend Messenger
72	By courtesy of Bill Ross
73	By courtesy of Malcolm Salter
74	By courtesy of State Library of Victoria - Allan C. Green collection of glass negatives
75	By courtesy of the A. J. Smythe Collection
76	By courtesy of the Imperial War Museum
77	By courtesy of World Aircraft Carriers List
78	By courtesy of the South Australian Maritime Museum
79	By courtesy of the Illustrated London News
80	By courtesy of the former website merchantnavyofficers.com. This excellent website closed in 2014 following the sad death of the website owner Fred Waddington. With the agreement of his widow Bobbie I have re-published as much of the material from the website as I can so that it is not lost.
81	By courtesy of Phil Witten and Judith Phillips (neé Witten)
82	By courtesy of the Benjidog Tower Hill website
83	By courtesy of Al Wouters
84	By courtesy of Clare Koebert
85	By courtesy of Peter Wells
86	By courtesy of The Birmingham Daily Mail
87	By courtesy of The Lichfield Mercury
88	By courtesy of The Hastings and St Leonards Observer
89	By courtesy of Nottingham Evening Post
90	By courtesy of The Torbay Express and South Devon Echo
91	By courtesy of The Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
92	By courtesy of The Aberdeen Press and Journal
93	By courtesy of The Harlepool Daily Mail
94	By courtesy of The Stage
95	By courtesy of The Burnley Express
96	By courtesy of The Barnoldswick & Earby Times
97	By courtesy of The East Kent Times and Mail
98	Original geneological research by Brian Watson
99	By courtesy of Steve Traynor
100	By courtesy of the Belfast Newsletter
101	By courtesy of the Heathfield School Magazine
102	By courtesy of the Sheffield Evening Telegraph
103	By courtesy of the Western Mail
104	By courtesy of the Philadelphia Inquirer
105	By courtesy of the Leicester Chronicle
106	By courtesy of The Globe
107	By courtesy of The Era
108	By courtesy of Ancestry.com
109	By courtesy of Tiller Girls
110	By courtesy of The Daily Mirror
111	By courtesy of The Liverpool Echo
112	By courtesy of The Shields Daily News
113	By courtesy of The Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette
114	By courtesy of The illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
115	By courtesy of The Birmingham Daily Gazette
116	By courtesy of The Western Daily Press
117	By courtesy of the Leicester Evening Mail
118	By courtesy of The Western Morning News
119	By courtesy of The Chelmsford Chronicle
120	By courtesy of The West London Star
121	By courtesy of The West London Observer
122	By courtesy of The Weekly Dispatch
123	By courtesy of The Sunday Pictorial
124	By courtesy of The London Daily News
125	By courtesy of The Manchester Evening News
126	By courtesy of the Sheffield Daily Telegraph
127	By courtesy of the Northants Evening Telegraph
128	By courtesy of the Newcastle Chronicle
129	By courtesy of the Daily Record
130	By courtesy of the National Library of Scotland
131	By courtesy of The Evaning Dispatch
132	By courtesy of The Birmingham Mail
133	By courtesy of The Bedfordshire Times and Independent
134	By courtesy of The Tamworth Herald
135	By courtesy of The Sussex Agricultural Express
136	By courtesy of The Grantham Journal
137	By courtesy of The Market Harborough Advertiser and Midland Mail
138	By courtesy of Margot Blackah
139	By courtesy of British Pathé
140	By courtesy of Pictorialpress.com
141	By courtesy of The Thanet Advertiser
142	By courtesy of The Morecambe Guardian
143	By courtesy of The Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer
144	By courtesy of The West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser
145	By courtesy of The Montrose Standard
146	By courtesy of The BBC
146	By courtesy of The Hampshire Telegraph
147	By courtesy of IMDb
148	By courtesy of Clark Gray, North Laine Community Association
147	By courtesy of The Coventry Evening Telegraph
148	By courtesy of The Kent and Sussex Courier
149	By courtesy of The Aberdeen Evening Express
150	By courtesy of The State Library of South Australia
151	By courtesy of Past India
152	By courtesy of E7 Now and Then
153	By courtesy of Researchgate
154	By courtesy of Wikiwand
155	By courtesy of Western Michigan University
156	By courtesy of Märkische Allgemeine
157	By courtesy of Stahlstadion
158	By courtesy of Wikiwand
159	By courtesy of Cocatrez.net
160	By courtesy of Grasbrook
161	By courtesy of Isle of Dogs Life
162	By courtesy of Christies
163	By courtesy of Ideastream Public Media
164	By courtesy of The World According to Victor
165	By courtesy of Wikipedia
166	By courtesy of History.com
167	By courtesy of Daisy Trains
168	By courtesy of Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
169	By courtesy of Pix Grove
170	By courtesy of Old Photos Cities of the World
171	By courtesy of Google Maps
172	By courtesy of Old Photos Cities of the World
173	By courtesy of Old Photos Cities of the World
174	By courtesy of The Scarrows of Cumberland
175	By courtesy of Godfrey Dykes
176	Jenkins, J.G. (1942); Bulletin 33: The Growing of Sea Island Cotton in the Coastal Plain of Georgia; University System of Georgia
177	By courtesy of Sunspel
178	By courtesy of For Posterity's Sake
179	By courtesy of GreenBiz
180	By courtesy of Find a Grave
181	By courtesy of Shapers of the 80s
182	By courtesy of City of Vancouver Archives
183	By courtesy of Livabl
184	By courtesy of New York Public Library
185	By courtesy of IndependentLiverpool Twitter Account
186	By courtesy of Darwin, Charles (1845): The Voyage of the Beagle
187	By courtesy of The Gleaner
188	By courtesy of Old BBC Radio Broadcasting Equipment and Memories
189	By courtesy of The Great War 1914-1918
190	By courtesy of The National Archives
191	By courtesy of The York Collection
192	Partridge, Eric (1923); A dictionary of slang and unconventional English; Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., London.
193	By courtesy of Library of Congress
194	Cram, Geo. F (1887); Cram's Universal Atlas Geographical, Astronomical and Historical (1st edition); Henry S. Stebbins, Chicago, United States
195	HMSO, (1943): Paravane Mine-Sweeping in Seaman's Pocket Book Wikipedia
196	By courtesy of Imperial War Museum - video about paravanes.
197	By courtesy of History of War
198	By courtesy of The Leicester Daily Post
199	By courtesy of The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
200	By courtesy of The Pall Mall Gazette
201	By courtesy of Imperial War Museum - video showing arrival of POWs at Leith
202	By courtesy of Library of Congress
203	By courtesy of The South Wales Weekly Post
204	By courtesy of The Marine Study
205	By courtesy of Mapping London
206	By courtesy of SciJinks
207	By courtesy of West Coast Motors
208	By courtesy of Benjidog Website - Geoff Topp's Postcards
209	Original diagram created by Brian Watson
210	By courtesy of University of Liverpool
211	By courtesy of Wikipedia - article on the American Colonialization Society
212	By courtesy of Liberia Past and Present - article on The Grain Coast, Malaguetta Coast or Pepper Coast before 1822
213	By courtesy of Royal Australian Navy: HMAS Sydney (II)
214	By courtesy of BAE Systems
215	By courtesy of ThoughtCo
216	By courtesy of Grace's Guide
217	By courtesy of tvd.im
218	By courtesy of Nick Messenger
219	By courtesy of Everyday Lives at War
220	By courtesy of World Corporal Punishment Research
221	By courtesy of William Bramhill
222	By courtesy of Haslingden Old and New
223	By courtesy of Wikipedia article on Zeppelin LZ 61
224	Crowley, Tony (2017); The Liverpool English Dictionary; Liverpool University Press, ISBN:9781786940612
225	By courtesy of The London Gazette
226	By courtesy of The Bramhill and Hudson Family Archive
227	By courtesy of Malcolm Cranfield
228	By courtesy of The Evening Post
229	By courtesy of Mutual Art
230	By courtesy of Library and Archives Canada (via Wikipedia Commons).
231	By courtesy of Marhisdata.nl
232	By courtesy of Rob Wisman