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Edward P. Lowry
A Methodist minister with a gift for first-hand storytelling, he wrote from the middle of the action rather than from a safe distance. His best-known work follows the Guards' Brigade through the South African War with the eye of a chaplain and the pace of an adventure memoir.
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With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
by Edward P. Lowry
About the author
Edward P. Lowry, also identified in library records as Edward Pearce Lowry, was a British Methodist pastor and writer. The clearest surviving record of his work is With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back, a memoir drawn from his experiences alongside British troops during the South African War.
In the preface to that book, he explains that parts of the story first appeared as letters in The Methodist Recorder, The Methodist Times, and other papers. That gives his writing an immediate, on-the-ground feel: it comes from someone reporting what he saw and lived through, not simply retelling events later.
Although little biographical detail is easy to confirm, his surviving work suggests a writer interested in courage, hardship, faith, and the realities of military life. For listeners who enjoy historical memoirs, Lowry offers a direct voice from the Boer War era.