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Jeffery E. (Jeffery Eardley) Jeffery
b. 1887
A decorated British artillery officer, prisoner of war memoirist, and literary translator, this early 20th-century writer brought both battlefield experience and a cosmopolitan eye to his books. His best-known work captures the strain, duty, and dark humor of World War I service from the inside.
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Servants of the Guns
by Jeffery E. (Jeffery Eardley) Jeffery
About the author
Writing as Jeffery E. Jeffery and also known as Jeffery Eardley Marston, he was born in 1887 and is best remembered for Servants of the Guns, a World War I book drawn from his experience as a British gunner officer. Records connected with his work and military life consistently link those two names, showing that his writing career sat very close to his service career.
Beyond his war writing, he also worked as a translator, helping bring French authors into English. Catalog records connect him with translations including works by Élie Faure, Jean de Pierrefeu, and Guy de Maupassant, which suggests a writer comfortable moving between firsthand military narrative and literary, European subjects.
Although he is not widely known today, his books still attract readers interested in firsthand war literature and overlooked early 20th-century authors. What stands out most is the mix of lived experience and literary range: a soldier who wrote vividly about war, and a translator who helped English-language readers discover continental voices.