Letter from Tpr Percy Day to his mother, Wakkerstroom, nd.
Day describes combat against the Boers, ‘I had a narrow escape the other day ... one bullet hit the ground close to my foot if I had been 6 inches forward it would have gone through my foot.’
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).