Alf Gregson

Alf Gregson
Personal information
Full name Alfred Gregson[1]
Date of birth 2 March 1889
Place of birth Bury, England
Date of death March 1968 (aged 7879)
Place of death Heywood, England
Playing position Inside left
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Unitarians
Rochdale
1913–1915 Grimsby Town 49 (12)
1915–1917Brentford (guest) 21 (11)
1919–1920 Bury 15 (1)
1921–1922 Rossendale United 6 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Alfred "Alf" Gregson (2 March 1889 – March 1968) was an English professional football inside left who played in the Football League for Grimsby Town and Bury.[1][2]

Personal life

Gregson served as a private with the 17th (Service) Battalion of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) during the First World War.[3] He was wounded near Bruay-la-Buissière in April 1916.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 118. ISBN 1-905891-61-X.
  2. White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. pp. 363–364. ISBN 0951526200.
  3. 1 2 Riddoch, Andrew; Kemp, David (2010). When the Whistle Blows: The Story of the Footballers' Battalion in the Great War. Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset: Haynes Publishing. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-85733-077-2.


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