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Arthur Edward Mainwaring
b. 1864
Best remembered for lively military histories and a lighter book on angling, this early-20th-century writer moved easily between regimental record and personal pastime. His books suggest a man deeply connected to army life, but also alert to the pleasures of sport and observation.
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The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland
by Cecil Francis Romer, Arthur Edward Mainwaring
About the author
Arthur Edward Mainwaring was a British author born in 1864 whose surviving bibliography points strongly toward military history. Library and catalog records credit him with Crown and Company (1911), a substantial history of the 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers, and with The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War (1908), written with Cecil Francis Romer.
Those works show him writing from close familiarity with the regiment’s world. In published editions of the South African War volume, he appears as Major A. E. Mainwaring, which suggests that his historical writing grew directly out of military service rather than distant academic research.
Mainwaring also wrote Fishing and Philandering (1914), with an introduction by H. T. Sheringham. That title gives his profile a more personal, companionable side: alongside formal regimental history, he also produced a book tied to angling and leisure. I could confirm his birth year and several books, but I did not find a clearly verified portrait on a reliable page.