Letter from Tpr Percy Day to his mother, 15 Apr 1901.
Day has arrived at Elandsfontein, 6 miles from Johannesburg, 32 to each cattle truck, had to take turns to lie down and sleep. Saw some Boers during the journey, the train stopped and the men took up position but they didn’t attack.
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).