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Letter from Tpr Percy Day to his mother, 2 May 1901. Day arrived at Standerton in a coal truck. He writes, ‘Given up butchering, am now a section leader. Would appreciate some woollen socks.’ 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).

Boer War (1899-1902)