Letter from Sgt Percy Day to his mother, Volksrust, Saturday 21 Jun 1902.
Sgt Day took a party of men to Johannesburg to look for civil employment. He writes, ‘I was offered £25 a month for a butchering job.’
He has had long chats with newly surrendered Boers about the war, ‘nearly all of them are big men some stand about 6ft 3 & 4. I have to look up at them.’
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).