Letter, 10 May 1854.
Sent by Frederick Newman, Windsor to his brother Charley.
Sgt Newman encloses the £60 for Charley’s discharge, he also writes that the regiment expects to go to Southampton the following week and then to ‘some island in the Mediterranean’ on the Orinoco steamer.
He makes arrangements regarding his property and his will.
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 (1854-1856).
He died of fever, possibly cholera, shortly after reaching Sevastopol.