Letter from Sgt Percy Day to his mother, Johannesburg, 16 Oct 1901.
Day is with Rawlinson’s column and riding a good Boer horse. He thinks the war will last another year at this rate. He has covered 152 miles in ten days.
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).