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Good day all,

I think this is the intro thread. Arrived here from researching a naval officer - Commander Charles Reynolds Sharp, who died in our village (St Tudy, Cornwall) in the 1960s. Rumoured to have been a WWI submariner I was given the task of researching further as I'm a retired submariner. Discovered he had served as a midshipman in 1899 and been present at the Siege of Ladysmith. I am able to correct medal roll table on this website which lists his ship as HMS TERRIBLE, but his naval documents list HMS POWERFUL as his appointed ship.

Hello Ian,

This might be of help.

Midshipman Charles Reynolds Sharp's grandson, Gerald Sharp, published Reynolds Sharp & Edward Chichester's Ladysmith diaries & letters in 1976.

ISBN 0 356 08346 2









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Thank you - the books will be most helpful. Midshipman, later Commander, Sharp’s naval documents are almost indecipherable!