Letter from Sgt Percy Day to his mother, 13 Jun 1902.
Day is back with the regiment and describes a Thanksgiving Service for Peace. He has no date for sailing home but he writes, ‘they won’t keep us long on 5/- a day doing nothing.’
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).