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Holloway was born in Bradford, Yorkshire.
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Edgar Holloway
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He became a war artist during the Boer War. He excelled in military uniform portraits and he worked extensively for Gale and Polden producing military uniform pictures for their postcard series. His illustrations have subsequently been reprinted in books on British army uniforms.
Holloway contributed illustrations to the Boy"s Own Paper and Young England magazine and illustrated numerous children"s books - mostly adventure books for boys.
His occupation is painter artist. Holloway emigrated to Australia in 1930 and illustrated a number of books for the Cornstalk Publishing Company in Sydney.
He died in the Sydney suburb of Burwood, in 1941. Between 1930 - 1941 Edgar married Eva Margaret and went on to do paintings for the Consolation magazine.
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