No worries, thanks for checking. I suspect that it might be in a primary source document somewhere; hopefully one day someone will dig something out for us to cite. AustralianRupert (talk) 03:43, 9 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
do we know if he had any siblings, or if he played any sports as a child?
suggest splitting the second paragraph of the Service with No. 75 Squadron section, as it seems quite long (although this will potentially be difficult)
I have split this up at what I think might be a logical point. Still leaves a longish paragraph but hopefully better than it was. Zawed (talk) 03:12, 9 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
However, there is some doubt whether this incident ever happened --> suggest attributing this in text. For instance, However, according to X, there is some..."
This was a holdover from the article as I found it. Doing some checking, the questioning of the validity of the anecdote was not in the original source so I have trimmed and slightly rephrased this. Zawed (talk) 03:12, 9 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
entitled 'Memorial to Sergeant James Allen Ward, V.C.' and --> the MOS usually prefers double quotes, but in this case I think it should probably use italics per MOS:ITALIC
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