GREGORY, Jack Morrison
| Service Number: | 18869 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 January 1916, Sydney, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 4th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | North Sydney, New South Wales, 14 August 1895 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Sydney Church of England Grammar School |
| Occupation: | Stockman (later Australian Test Cricketer) |
| Died: | Natural Causes, Bega, New South Wales, 7 August 1973, aged 77 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Northbridge (Shore) Sydney Church of England Grammar School Memorial Cricket Ground Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 18869, Sydney, New South Wales | |
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| 11 May 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Bombardier, 18869, 7th Field Artillery Brigade, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: '' | |
| 11 May 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Bombardier, 18869, 7th Field Artillery Brigade, HMAT Argyllshire, Sydney | |
| 19 Sep 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant | |
| 19 Dec 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant | |
| 3 Mar 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 4th Field Artillery Brigade |
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"Jack Morrison Gregory (1895-1973), cricketer, was born on 14 August 1895 at North Sydney, third son and sixth child of native-born parents Charles Smith Gregory (1847-1935), accountant, and his wife Jessie Anne, née Morrison. The Gregorys were long established in Australian cricket. Jack was educated in 1907-12 at Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore), where he showed promise as a hurdler. He was a lower grade player with the North Sydney Cricket Club when he enlisted as an artillery gunner in the Australian Imperial Force in January 1916. Promoted sergeant in December, second lieutenant in September 1918 and lieutenant in December, he had two tours of duty in France. In 1919 he joined the A.I.F. cricket team in England.
Under the leadership of H. L. Collins, Gregory developed into an all-rounder whose spectacular hitting was matched by fearsome fast bowling and prehensile slip fielding. On the A.I.F. tour of England and South Africa in 1919-20 he scored 1352 runs at 31 and took 178 wickets at just under 17. The team returned to Australia to play their last matches; Gregory scored a stunning century in each innings and took eight wickets against New South Wales.
Discharged from the A.I.F. in March 1920, Gregory played a leading part next summer in the recovery of the Ashes from England, with 442 runs at 73 in the five matches, including a century at Melbourne, 23 wickets at 24, and 15 catches. Touring England in 1921 under the captaincy of Warwick Armstrong, Gregory and E. A. McDonald formed the first major opening bowling partnership based on speed. The explosive action of Gregory complemented perfectly the smoothness of McDonald. Between them they took 46 of the 71 English wickets that fell to bowlers in the Test matches; in first-class matches Gregory took 116 wickets at 16, scored 1135 runs at 36, and was named among Wisden's cricketers of the year. En route home, he scored a century against South Africa in seventy minutes which has remained the fastest century in Test cricket." - SOURCE and MORE about JACK (adb.anu.edu.au)
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