NAM.2009-07-27-15

Letter from Tpr Percy Day to his mother, nd. Day writes that one of his men has been shot dead at Standerton on sentry duty and that, ‘I never felt better in my life than I do out here.’ 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).

Boer War (1899-1902)