Letter from Percy Day to his mother, Market Hotel, Sir Lowry Road, Cape Town, more commonly known as the Bug Walk, 3 Nov 1902.
Day writes that he has got a job for £2 10/- a week in a cold storage company in Cape Town. He also writes that there is lots of unemployment and that he wouldn’t advise anyone to come out from England just now.
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).