NAM.2009-07-27-25

Letter from Sgt Percy Day to his mother, Standerton, nd. Day is in hospital with dysentery. He writes, ‘Assure you I will be alright though this is the worst month in this country for the disease’. 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)