Letter from Cpl Percy Day to his mother, 10 Sep 1901.
Day appears to still be in the Greylingstad vicinity. The letter describes Boers in captured British uniforms. He has been promised a pass to visit Johannesburg and try for a job butchering at the Cold Storage Company. He writes, ‘Wouldn’t mind staying here after the peace if I can get £1 a day’.
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).