letter, letter
Accession Number

NAM.2009-07-27-53

Description

Letter from Percy Day to his mother, Mossel Bay Meat Supply Company, 9 Apr 1904. Letter contains details of the resolution of the court case Day has been involved with. He writes about some friends of his returning to England and thinks he may follow them. He finds the wages look good but the cost of living is so high. He also talks about the fickleness of his girlfriends. 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).