Richard Everard Wyrall

Wyrall was a professional author, journalist and military historian who was born in 1878. He rarely used his first name. He served in the Boer War, World War 1 (as a second lieutenant in the A.S.C.), and the Third Afghan War, 1919. He owned and edited the first photographic magazine to be published in South Africa. He wrote a number of Divisional and Regimental histories. He died in 1933.