Most of the books listed below all deal with aspects of Royal Navy history in the 1850's -1860's when Samuel was a seaman and the Battle of Gate Pa.
1. Ships on the Australia Station
John Bastock
1988
ISBN 0-86777-348-0
2. The British Sailor - A Social History of the Lower Decks
Peter Kemp
1970
ISBN 0-460-03957-1
3. Before the Mast - Naval Ratings of the 19th Century
Henry Baynham
Hutchinson - 1970
ISBN: 0-09-107170-4
4. Hurrah for the Life of a Sailor - Life on the Lower Deck of the Victorian
Navy
John Winton
Michael Joseph Ltd. - 1977
ISBN: 0-7181-1580-3
5. Ships in Australian Waters
Peter J. Williams and Roderick Serle
Angus and Robertson Ltd. - 1968
National Library of Australia No. AUS 67-2198
6. The Australia Station - A History of the Royal Navy in the South West
Pacific 1821-1913
John Bach
New South Wales University Press - 1986
ISBN: 0 86840 393 8
7. The Navy in Transition - A Social History 1814-1864
Michael Lewis
Hodder and Stoughton - 1965
8. The Victoria Cross at Sea
John Winton
Michael Joseph Ltd. - 1978
ISBN: 0-7181-1701-8
9. Hornblower's Navy
Steve Pope
Orion Media - 1998
ISBN 0-75281-774-4
10. The New Zealand Wars - And the Victorian Interpretation of Racial
Conflict
James Belich
Auckland University Press - 1986
ISBN: 1-86940-012-7
11. Walking the Waikato Wars - Maori Triumph at Gate Pa: 29 April
1864
Chris Pugsley
New Zealand Defence Quarterly: No. 19 - Summer 1997.
ISSN: 1172-4803
12. The Story of Gate Pa
Captain Gilbert Mair
Bay of Plenty Times Ltd. - 1926
No ISSN
13. The Pa Maori
Elsdon Best
Museum of New Zealand - First published 1927 - Reprinted
1995
ISBN 0-909010-39-0
14. Family Archives at the National Archives
National Archives - 1990