Alf Gregson

Alfred 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]

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 78–79)
Place of death Heywood, England
Playing position(s) Inside left
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Unitarians
1911–1913 Rochdale
1913–1915 Grimsby Town 49 (12)
1915–1917 → Brentford (guest) 21 (11)
1919–1921 Bury 15 (1)
1921–1922 Rossendale United 6 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Personal life

Gregson was married with a daughter born in 1915 and a son, who died in infancy in May 1917.[3] In 1914, he was working as a tinsmith.[3] In February 1915, six months after the outbreak of the First World War, Gregson enlisted as a private with the Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment.[3] He suffered a gunshot wound to the left thigh near Bruay-la-Buissière in April 1916.[4][5] Gregson finished the war as a corporal in the 4th (Service) Battalion and was discharged from the army in March 1920.[5]

Career statistics
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Grimsby Town 1914–15[6] Second Division 15 1 0 0 15 1
Career total 15 1 0 0 15 1
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References
  1. 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 0-9515262-0-0.
  3. "Grimsby Town Football Club". Archived from the original on 15 March 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  4. 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.
  5. Alf Gregson on Lives of the First World War
  6. "Grimsby Town Squad 1914/15". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 31 May 2017.


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