Letter from Tpr Percy Day to his mother, 12 May 1901.
Day has had a week’s marching and fighting since he left Standerton under Col Rimmington.
The men have been burning farmhouses and were shot at at once, and a man’s falling horse brought down a mine. Day’s hand was cut in the process.
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).