Letter, 17 May 1854.
Sent Frederick Newman, Windsor, to his parents.
Sgt Newman encloses his will and discusses arrangements relating to it, he writes that the regiment is leaving for the island of Candia, via Southampton the following Saturday.
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.