Jeffrey Gray

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Jeffrey Guy Gray (born March 19, 1959 - † July 26, 2016 in Queanbeyan ) was an Australian historian . Gray, who was most recently a professor at the University of New South Wales and President of the Society for Military History, was one of the leading and internationally recognized military historians in his country.

Life

Gray came from an officer's family, his father Ron Gray was a major general in the Australian Army and grew up in Canberra . After studying at the Australian National University (BA 1983) in Canberra, he became a teaching fellow at the UNSW Faculty of Military Studies at the Royal Military College Duntroon . This was followed in 1986 with a PhD with Peter Dennis at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney (Thesis: British Commonwealth forces in the Korean War. A study of a military alliance relationship ).

He then worked briefly in the History Section of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. In 1988 he returned to the USNW Department of History on the Australian Defense Force Academy campus . There he established the Australian Center for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society . From 2000 to 2002 he was Major General Matthew C. Horner Chair of Military Theory at Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia. From 2003 he was Professor in the History Program at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the USNW. His academic students included a. Mark Dapin and Roger Lee .

From 2002 he was a member of the Army History Research Grant Schemes Committee and from 2007 of the Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee. He was also u. a. Consultant with the United States Department of War Veterans and member of the Advisory Board of H-War ( H-Net ). From 2000 to 2007 he was a trustee and from 2004 to 2007 Parliamentarian of the Society for Military History (SMH). In 2015/16 he was the first non-US-American to serve at the SMH; he was succeeded by Jennifer D. Keene .

From 1990 to 1994 and 2003/04 Gray was editor of the USNW journal War & Society , published by Taylor & Francis . He has also served on the editorial boards of the Journal of the Australian War Memorial, Journal of Military History , Scientia Militaria, World War II Magazine, War in History , Defender and the Australian Army Journal .

Gray was the author and editor of numerous books, he published a. a. on the Korean and Vietnam War, biographies (including about Lieutenant General Tom Daly ) and pioneering work on the military history of Australia as well as several contributions to the Official History ( The Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948–1975 ).

Gray was a second wife and father of three children.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Commonwealth Armies and the Korean War: An Alliance Study (1988)
  • A Military History of Australia (1990; 3rd edition 2008)
  • Australian Brass: The Career of Lieutenant General Sir Horace Robertson (1992)
  • (ed.) with Peter Dennis , Ewan Morris , Robin Prior : The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (1995; 2nd edition 2008 also with Jean Bou )
  • with Peter Dennis: Emergency and Confrontation: Australian Military Operations in Malaya and Borneo 1950–1966 (1996)
  • Up Top ': The Royal Australian Navy in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1955–1972 (1998)
  • (ed.) A Commonwealth of Histories: The Official Histories of the Second World War in the United States, Britain and the Commonwealth (1998)
  • The Australian Army: A History (2006)
  • with William Thomas Allison , Janet G. Valentine : American Military History: A Survey from Colonial Times to the Present (2006; 2nd edition 2012)
  • A Soldier's Soldier: A Biography of Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly (2012)

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personal data
SURNAME Gray, Jeffrey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gray, Jeffrey Guy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1959
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 2016
Place of death Queanbeyan