Letter · 15 Nov 1914 · At Sea Turkey-Egypt, Egypt
The close confines of a blacked-out ship
Albert ('AJ') Newton was killed in action on the Somme, 27 September 1916.
Extracts from this letter
"All lights in the mess deck are shaded with black paper so that light only strikes downwards and is not visible from the side and does not show out through the portholes."
"It is very close and warm down in the holds where we sleep at night about three hundred men occupying the space..."
