Letter from Sgt Percy Day to his mother, 27 February 1902.
Day is now on a general ward and, ‘they are feeding me splendidly. I have had 5 bottles of champagne this week, but they have taken the champagne off & put me on 2 bottles of double stout a day.’
He encloses a letter from his officer.
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).