Letter from Cpl Percy Day to his mother, Johannesburg, 16 Oct 1901.
Day writes, ‘Been offered the cold storage job but think I’d come home first. Won’t be back by Xmas as there is still a lot of fighting going on now or murder which ever people like to call it. After a white flag incident we’ve been ordered to shoot any Boers coming in.
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).