author
Edmund Verney Wyatt-Edgell
1845–1879
A British cavalry officer and co-author of a firsthand account of the Anglo-Zulu War, he wrote with the immediacy of someone who had lived the campaign himself. His short life ended in battle in 1879, giving his surviving work an added sense of closeness to the events it describes.
1 Audiobook
The Story of the Zulu Campaign
by Waller Ashe, Edmund Verney Wyatt-Edgell
About the author
Born on August 16, 1845, Edmund Verney Wyatt-Edgell studied at Christ Church, Oxford, and later served as a captain in the 17th Lancers. Contemporary records identify him as the eldest son of the Rev. Edgell Wyatt-Edgell and Henrietta, Baroness Braye.
He is remembered in print as the co-author, with Waller Ashe, of The Story of the Zulu Campaign, a near-contemporary account of the Anglo-Zulu War. The book draws part of its value from his direct military experience and from the fact that it was written so close to the events it describes.
Wyatt-Edgell was killed at the Battle of Ulundi on July 4, 1879, while serving in Zululand. Because he died so young, his reputation rests largely on that wartime service and on this single notable contribution to military history.