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“The Naval Brigade In South Africa During the Years 1877-8-9” by Fleet Surgeon Henry F. Norbury, C.B., R.N. (This book was written by the Principal Medical Officer of HMS Active immediately after the war in 1880 while he was serving as Fleet Surgeon in charge of the Naval Hospital at the Cape of Good Hope. The first half of the book tells of the wars in 1877 and 1878 at the Cape. The latter half is about the “Active’s Naval Brigade in the Zulu War. The book is available to read online.)
“Fearful Hard Times, The Siege and Relief of Eshowe, 1879” by Ian Castle and Ian Knight. (This book is includes a lot of information about the Naval Brigade of “Active,” from its accompanying Colonel Pearson’s Column, the Battle of Inyezane, Siege of Fort Eshowe, Lord Chelmsford’s Relief Column with the Naval Brigade contingents of “Boadicea”, “Shah” and “Tenedos,” Battle of Gingindlovu, Relief of Eshowe.)
“Pages and Papers From The Life of Admiral Of The Fleets Sir Frederick Richards – IV. The Zulu War,” The Naval Review, Vol. XX, No. 3, August, 1932 (The Naval Review is available online.)
“Naval Brigades in the Zulu War,” by A. L. Bleby, The Naval Review, Vol. 69, No. 4, October, 1980
“Admiral Sir James Startin, K.C.B., A.M., 50 Years Naval Service,” by J. S. F. Startin. (only 3 pages of the book are about the Zulu War)
“A Young Heart Of Oak – Memories of Harry Stuart Boldero, Lieutenant R.N.,” by Very Rev. H. D. M. Spence, D. D. (A record of the short life of Harry Boldero, with about 65 pages while he was a Midshipman aboard H.M.S. Boadicea at Port Natal and Simon’s Bay during the Zulu War.)
“The Diary of Signal Bosun Henry Eason: The Naval Brigade in The Zulu War, 1879,” edited by Paul Quinn, Naval Miscellany, Vol. 7 (Most of the Diary is available to read online)
Petty Officer Tom
90th
Posts : 10131 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 64 Location : Melbourne, Australia
Subject: Naval Bgde Books Tue Jun 25, 2013 2:26 am
Hi Tom I'm away so I may be wrong , but isnt their a diary by a chap named '' Weston '' who served in the Naval Brigade ?. Happy to be corrected . 90th
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Subject: Re: naval brigade books Tue Jun 25, 2013 3:10 am
90th,
I assume this is the one you are referring to.
“The Career of H.M.S. Shah, (Naval Brigade,) during The Zulu Campaign, being a Diary of Events compiled by G.H.W., Signalman.” Published in January 1880 in Gloucester by C. Jeynes. (Reprinted by the Anglo-Zulu War Research Society in Volume 7, Issue 2 of The Journal of the Anglo-Zulu War Research Society in 2001.)
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