Alf Gregson

Alfred Gregson (2 March 1889 – March 1968) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside left in the Football League for Grimsby Town and Bury.

Personal life
Gregson was married with a daughter born in 1915 and a son, who died in infancy in May 1917. In 1914, he was working as a tinsmith. 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. He suffered a gunshot wound to the left thigh near Bruay-la-Buissière in April 1916. Gregson finished the war as a corporal in the 4th (Service) Battalion and was discharged from the army in March 1920.

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Honours
Rochdale


 * Lancashire Combination First Division: 1910–11, 1911–12