Waller Ashe

Waller Ashe was a British military writer of the late 19th century. A Project Gutenberg edition of The Story of the Zulu Campaign identifies him as Major Ashe, formerly of the King's Dragoon Guards, and also notes that he wrote The Military Institutions of France.

He is best known for The Story of the Zulu Campaign (1880), published with Edmund Verney Wyatt-Edgell. Contemporary and later descriptions suggest Ashe was the principal writer and organizer of the book, drawing on newspapers, official papers, and especially journals, notes, and sketches sent by officers serving in Zululand. That mix of research and firsthand correspondence helped give the work its detailed, on-the-ground feel.

Other book records also connect him with Personal Records of the Kandahar Campaign, showing that his interests extended beyond southern Africa to other British military campaigns of the period. Clear biographical details about his personal life appear to be scarce in readily available sources, so modern readers mostly know him through the military histories he left behind.