General Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson, GBE, KCB, MC & Bar (28 August 1917 – 12 March 1999)[1] was a British Army officer, military historian, author and Governor of Gibraltar.

The one at Bou Arada in Tunisia placed him in bed for four months before he joined General Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters, where the Allied invasion of Sicily was being planned.

[2] He was promoted brevet lieutenant colonel in 1955[10] and was appointed Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (Plans) at the War Office during the Suez crisis in 1956.

[2] He was Deputy Director of Staff Duties at the War Office from 1962 and joined the Imperial Defence College in 1965[2] being promoted brigadier in March.

[20] Advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in the 1975 Birthday Honours,[21] Jackson retired from active army service in February 1977,[22] taking a post of Military Historian at the Cabinet Office from 1977 to 1978 and then becoming Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Gibraltar,[23] overseeing the colony's transition to a British dependent territory and where he was a stalwart advocate for self-determination in the territory.