NAM.2002-03-167-11

Letter, 28 Apr 1852. Sent by Frederick Newman, Halifax, Nova Scotia, to his mother. Letter sends news that the regiment expects to be in England by late May. From a collection of papers associated with Frederick Newman, Hospital Sergeant, 97th (Earl of Ulster’s) Regiment of Foot. Sgt Newman served at Newcastle, Jamaica, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Greece during the Crimean War. He died of fever, possibly cholera, shortly after reaching Sevastopol.