author
Edmund Verney Wyatt-Edgell
1845–1879
A British cavalry officer and co-author of a firsthand account of the Anglo-Zulu War, he left behind a small but vivid place in military history. His best-known work, written with Waller Ashe, draws on direct experience of the 1879 campaign in South Africa.
1 Audiobook
The Story of the Zulu Campaign
by Waller Ashe, Edmund Verney Wyatt-Edgell
About the author
Born in 1845, Edmund Verney Wyatt-Edgell was a British army officer who served in the 17th Lancers. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and is remembered today mainly for co-writing The Story of the Zulu Campaign with Waller Ashe.
That book stands out because it was shaped by the perspective of men who had seen the campaign at close range. It helped preserve a contemporary account of the Anglo-Zulu War and remains the work most closely associated with his name.
Wyatt-Edgell was killed at the Battle of Ulundi on July 4, 1879, when he was still in his early thirties. Because his life was cut short so young, his reputation rests less on a long literary career than on this single surviving contribution and the dramatic military story surrounding it.