Jeffery Williams

Edward Jeffery Williams (January 16, 1920 – April 5, 2011) was a Canadian army officer and military historian. He was most noted for his book Byng of Vimy, a biography of Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy which won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 1983 Governor General's Awards.

Background Williams was born in Calgary, Alberta, and was raised by a single mother after his father died a month before his birth. He attended Calgary's Sunalta High School, and signed up for the Calgary Highlanders when he reached enlistment age. The Long Left Flank: The Hard Fought Way to the Reich, 1944-1945 (1988); First in the Field, Gault of the Patricias (1995), a biography of Princess Patricia's founder Hamilton Gault; and Far from Home: A Memoir of a 20th Century Soldier (2004), his own memoir of his military career. He was also a regular writer of obituaries of Canadian soldiers for The Telegraph, and played a role in the creation of the Canada Memorial in London's Green Park.