Jeffery WilliamsJeffery Williams, born in Calgary, Alberta in 1920, is the recent recipient of the Governor- General's Literary Award for Non-fiction and the University of British Columbia's Canadian Biography Award for his highly acclaimed biography of the former Gvener- General of canada, Lord Byng of Vimy, published in 1983. An infantryman, he served in the North-West Europe campaign and commanded a company of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in action in Korea. He has taught at the Staff Collage and has held military appointments in Germany, in the Canadian Embassy in Washington and the Canadian High Commission in London. He retired from the forces in 1971 and lives in Summerset. Read More Read Less