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Jeffery E. (Jeffery Eardley) Jeffery
b. 1887
A British artillery officer turned his wartime experience into vivid first-hand writing. Best known for Servants of the Guns, he wrote under the name Jeffery E. Jeffery and brought the front lines of World War I to the page with the eye of someone who had lived them.
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Servants of the Guns
by Jeffery E. (Jeffery Eardley) Jeffery
About the author
Born in 1887, Jeffery Eardley Marston wrote as Jeffery E. Jeffery. Records for his books connect that pen name with Marston, and library and bookseller sources identify him as both an author and a translator.
He is best known for Servants of the Guns (1917), a World War I book drawn from artillery service. One bookseller description identifies Marston as a regular gunner officer who was wounded in August 1914, later received the DSO and MC in 1917, and reached the rank of major.
Surviving catalog records also link him to other works, including Escape..., Side Issues, and a translation of Plutarch Lied. Reliable biographical detail is limited, so the clearest picture that emerges is of a soldier-writer whose published work was closely tied to war service and its aftermath.