NAM.2004-07-107-1

Sound cassette of an oral history interview with Midshipman (later Commander) Charles Reynolds Sharp, RN, 1963. Cassette covers his service with the Naval Brigade during the Boer War, October 1899 to March 1900. Introduced by the father of the donor. Subjects include HMS Terrible, HMS Powerful, Gen Sir Redvers Buller, Sir George White, Gen Hubert Gough, Capt Percy Scott,, Sir John French, Jack Churchill, Lord Dundonald, various locations in South Africa and China, artillery and other weaponry, Royal Navy, Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Boer Forces, Gordon Highlanders and the Gloucestershire Regiment. Associated with the Siege and the Relief of Ladysmith, Boer War (1899-1900). Interview conducted in 1963.

Ladysmith, Siege of, 1900 (Boer War 1899-1902), Ladysmith, Relief of, 1900 (Boer War 1899-1902)