David Rew was a 23 year old engineer and a serving member of the Duke of Lancaster's own Yeomanry Cavalry when he joined the Imperial Yeomanry upon the 3rd of February 1900, interestingly, at Blackpool, he gave his next of kin as his mother living on Sefton Street in Liverpool.
Rew was subsequently buried at Kimberley after exhumation from Faberspruit.