NAM.2009-07-27-41

Letter from Percy Day to his mother, SS Dominion near the Canaries, 10 Oct 1902. Day describes the voyage and a burial at sea. 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).