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Perwira distrik Protektorat Kepulauan Solomon Britania untuk Guadalcanal, Martin Clemens (tengah berdiri) dengan para anggota kepanduan penduduk asli dari pasukan pertahanan protektorat pada 1942.

Pasukan Pertahanan Protektorat Kepulauan Solomon Britania (bahasa Inggris: British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force, BSIPDF) adalah pasukan militer kolonial Britania dari Protektorat Kepulauan Solomon Britania (1889–1978). Kepulauan Solomon tak memiliki pasukan militer sejak meraih kemerdekaan dari Inggris pada 1976. Meskipun BSIPDF berjumlah sangat kecil, pasukan tersebut memainkan peran signifikan dalam kampanye Kepulauan Solomon pada Perang Dunia II.

Para anggota terkenal dari BSIPDF meliputi:

Sir David Clive Crosbie Trench, MC, US Legion of Merit
Martin Clemens, CBE, MC, AM
Sir Jacob Vouza, MBE, GM, US Silver Star, US Legion of Merit
Kapten Donald Gilbert Kennedy, DSO,^[1]^[2] US Navy Cross^[3]

Catatan

^ Laracy, Hugh (2013). "Chapter 11 - Donald Gilbert Kennedy (1897-1967) An outsider in the Colonial Service" (PDF). Watriama and Co: Further Pacific Islands Portraits. Australian National University Press. ISBN 9781921666322.
^ Butcher, Mike (2012). ... when the long trick's over: Donald Kennedy in the Pacific. Holland House, Kennington, Vic. ISBN 978 0 9871627 0 0.
^ "Full Text Citations For Award of The Navy Cross". To Foreign Personnel - World War II. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2017-07-02. Diakses tanggal 25 July 2017.

Referensi

Clemens, Martin (2004). Alone on Guadalcanal: A Coastwatcher's Story (edisi ke-reissue). Bluejacket Books. ISBN 1-59114-124-9.
Feldt, Eric Augustus (1991) [1946]. The Coastwatchers. Victoria, Australia: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-014926-0.
Feuer, A. B. (1992). Coastwatching in World War II (Stackpole Military History Series). Westport, Connecticut, USA: Stackpole Books. ISBN 0-8117-3329-7.
Jersey, Stanley Coleman (2008). Hell's Islands: The Untold Story of Guadalcanal. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 1-58544-616-5.
Lord, Walter (2006) [1977]. Lonely Vigil; Coastwatchers of the Solomons. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-466-3.

[LH1-1] Laracy, Hugh (2013). "Chapter 11 - Donald Gilbert Kennedy (1897-1967) An outsider in the Colonial Service" (PDF). Watriama and Co: Further Pacific Islands Portraits. Australian National University Press. ISBN 9781921666322.

[MB-2] Butcher, Mike (2012). ... when the long trick's over: Donald Kennedy in the Pacific. Holland House, Kennington, Vic. ISBN 978 0 9871627 0 0.

[DKNC-3] "Full Text Citations For Award of The Navy Cross". To Foreign Personnel - World War II. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2017-07-02. Diakses tanggal 25 July 2017.

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