Dear Bernard
Sorry to hear about your recent ill-health hope you well on the way to a full recovery. In your research for Sharpe have you come across “A soldier of the seventy-first, the journal of a soldier in the peninsular war” This was originally published in 1819 and I found a modern reprint in a charity shop. Seems to be very similar to the refileman Harris diary so far. Goes from the South American campaign to Waterloo via the peninsular war.
Steven Shaw