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Among the many officers and men of 24 Battalion who have helped me in writing this history I am specially indebted to Lieutenant-Colonels R. G. Webb, J. Conolly, R. L. Hutchens and E. W. Aked, Majors A. C. W. Mantell-Harding, E. R. Andrews, A. W. H. Borrie, NZMC, and D. H. Lloyd; also to Sergeant R. H. Parker who generously handed me the notes he had made while working on the early part of the Battalion's history, and to Brigadier G. H. Clifton who allowed me access to those parts of his diary which describe the attack on El Mreir.

The occupations given in the biographical footnotes are those on enlistment. The ranks are those held on discharge or at the date of death.

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