Letter from Tpr Percy Day to his mother, Whit Sunday 1901.
Day is on the veldt near Ermoler [sic] and Belfast and had to beg for a scrap of paper. There are little fights every day.
A lot of horses have been lost (shot) but only two men are dead so far and seven or eight captured who were stripped of their clothes. A lot of prisoners had been taken the day before.
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).