Letter from Percy Day to his mother, Aldershot, nd.
Day has just arrived at Aldershot where conditions are spartan. The men have to look after themselves, Day slept in his clothes because there wasn’t enough bedding, and the men have to cut pieces of a hunk of beef with their pocket knives.
From a collection of letters and other papers of Sgt Percy Day, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), part of the 21st Bn Imperial Yeomanry while serving in the Boer War during 1901-1902, and afterwards as a settler in Cape Colony, 1902-1904.
Associated with the Boer War (1899-1902).