Letter from Sgt Percy Day to his mother, 22 Jan 1902.
Letter describes the capture of Commandant Erasmus. Day guarded him and writes, ‘he had got a murderous look on his face he stood about 6ft 4 in & very broad with it he looks as if he would want an elephant to carry him but he was not riding a very big horse.’
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).