TOPIC: Trooper David Rew, 23rd (Lancashire) Coy, IY. - k.i.a. at Faberspruit 30.5.1900

In St Mark's Church, Worsley, Greater Manchester.


He's also remembered on the memorial from Greenbank School, Mossley Hill, Liverpool.
www.angloboerwar.com/forum/17-memorials-...ssley-hill-liverpool

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.

Surely "Faberspruit" should be "Faber's Puts" : the farm, where Sir Charles Warren's column (including IY) was attacked by Boer commandos on 30 May 1900?

Arthur R wrote: Surely "Faberspruit" should be "Faber's Puts" : the farm, where Sir Charles Warren's column (including IY) was attacked by Boer commandos on 30 May 1900?

Yes, correct. War memorials are not always accurate, especially when dealing with unfamiliar words - as most Afrikans was to English people in 1900.