NAM.2002-03-167-2

Envelope letter, 26 Apr 1844. Sent by Frederick Newman, Parkhurst Barracks, Isle of Wight, to his parents. 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.