12 Facts About Jeffrey Grey

Jeffrey Guy Grey was an Australian military historian.

Jeffrey Grey was the first non-American to become the president of the Society for Military History, but is perhaps best known as the author of A Military History of Australia.

Jeffrey Guy Grey was born on 19 March 1959, the son of Ron Grey, an Australian Army officer and his wife Patricia.

Jeffrey Grey's family was a military one; his father eventually reached the rank of major general, and two of his uncles became brigadiers.

Jeffrey Grey entered the Australian National University, from which he graduated in 1983, and joined the Faculty of Military Studies at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, as a teaching fellow.

Jeffrey Grey completed his doctorate there under the supervision of Peter Dennis, writing his 1985 thesis on "British Commonwealth forces in the Korean War: a study of a military alliance relationship".

Jeffrey Grey wrote prolifically about the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

Jeffrey Grey was perhaps best known as the author of A Military History of Australia, a widely used single-volume textbook.

Jeffrey Grey wrote the volume on the Australian Army for the Oxford Australian Centenary History of Defence, and the volume on The War with the Ottoman Empire for The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War, a project for which he was a driving force.

Jeffrey Grey held the Major General Matthew C Horner Chair of Military Theory at the United States Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia, from 2000 to 2002, and in 2015 he became the first non-American to become the President of the Society for Military History.

Jeffrey Grey died suddenly of a heart attack on 26 July 2016.

Jeffrey Grey was survived by his father Ron; sisters Penny and Gina; his first wife, Gina, and their daughter Victoria and son Duncan; his second wife, Emma and their son Sebastian; and his step-daughters Hannah and Sophie.