Acknowledgements

//"The Crusades and the Holy Land" -// Georges Tate (Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1996) //"Knight Hospitaller (1) 1100-1306"// - David Nicolle (Osprey, 2001) //"Knights of Jerusalem - The Crusading Order of Hospitallers 1100-1565"// - David Nicolle (Osprey, 2008) //"The Order of St. John (A Short History)"// - E. D. Renwick, revised I. M. Williams (St John's Gate, 5th ed. rev. 1969) //"An Illustrated History of the Knights Hospitaller"// - Stephen Dafoe (Ian Allan Publishing, 2010) //"Rhodes Besieged - A New History"// - Robert Douglas Smith & Kelly DeVries (The History Press, 2011) //"The Great Siege - Malta 1565" -// Ernle Bradford (World Books, 1961) //"Malta 1565 - Last Battle of the Crusades"// - Tim Pickles (Osprey, 1998) //"The Knights of Malta"// - H. J. A. Sire (Yale University Press, 1994) //"A Good Uniform - The St John Story"// - Joan Clifford (Whitcombe & Tombs, 1967) //"St John in New Zealand 1885-1985"// - ed. Dr Rex Wright-St Clair (Millwood Press, 1985) //"First to Care - 125 Years of the Order of St John in New Zealand 1885-2010"// - Graeme Hunt (Libro International, 2009)
 * Book resources:**

There are so many Wikipedia sites that I researched for all things St John that I cannot list them all. Here are some of the main pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Merciful http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Crusade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blessed_Gerard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_du_Puy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_hospitaller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Rhodes_%281480%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Rhodes_%281522%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Malta_%281565%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alliance_of_the_Orders_of_St._John_of_Jerusalem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venerable_Order_of_Saint_John
 * Internet Resources:**

Other pages used in my research are as follows: http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=3945 About St John the Almoner. http://blessed-gerard.org/index.htm A home page for the early years of St John http://blessed-gerard.org/bgt_1_3.htm Blessed Gerard and the Papal Bull of 15 February 1113 http://www.360cities.net/image/syria-krak-des-chevaliers-crusader-castle#353.30,1.50,76.8 An interactive walk-through of Krak des Chevaliers. http://nobility.org/2013/02/28/the-dragon-slayer-knight-of-rhodes/ http://www.roman-catholic-saints.com/gozon.html http://warfare.atspace.eu/Renaissance/Caoursin-ORUD.htm Art from 1496 of the Siege of Rhodes. http://www.stjohneyehospital.org/ http://www.sja.org.uk/sja/about-us/our-history/125-voices.aspx British St John Ambulance history 1877-2012 http://www.orderofmalta.int/the-order-and-its-institutions/64948/900-years-since-the-recognition-by-pope-paschal-ii/?lang=en The 900th anniversary celebrations of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. http://www.orderofstjohn.org/st-john-worldwide http://www.caringonthehomefront.org.uk/stories/air-raids/betty-popkiss/ There are many other stories of St John in World War II here. http://www.stjohn.org.nz/ The St John Hub had many important documents detailing the Order in New Zealand. Get access to this if you can.