Letter from Sgt Percy Day to his mother, 15 May 1902.
Day is back in hospital at Charlestown, Natal with enteric fever which he went down with on 2 May. Day writes that the Boers are supposed to surrender by today.
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).