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In Toxteth Park Cemetery, Liverpool.

Killed in South Africa on 20th January 1902, aged 24.

Nice one, killed on the railway at Waterval Onder.

So it was an accidental death rather than killed in action?

Yes, fell off or hit by a train.

That reminds me of this, from WW1 -

I often have cause to regret that records in South Africa are less complete and less easily accessed that those in the UK (and elsewhere). I had a very frustrating time trying to find out more about the circumstances that led to the death of a Boer War veteran in South West Africa after the GSWA Campaign ended in 1915. The man concerned was Lieutenant Hugh Frank Ievers, South African Mounted Rifles, (formerly Trooper , Natal Police, and Lieutenant, Royal Warwickshire Regiment).

My record of him ends as follows:
"He .... was killed in a railway accident on 30/10/1915 at Eliso Siding, near Omaruru, aged 33 years. He is buried in the Usakos Cemetery."
Another son of the Empire who ended up buried in a lonely place far from home.

Brett