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ROSS GREGORY (1916-1942) ARCHIVE, one of the youngest to play Test cricket, Gregory was selected for Victoria while still a school boy at Wesley College, Melbourne. In 1936-37 he helped Australia recover from the loss of the first two Tests against E...

Auction 31.07.2001
31.07.2001
Schätzpreis
4.000 AU$ - 6.000 AU$
ca. 2.038 $ - 3.057 $
Zuschlagspreis:
4.935 AU$
ca. 2.515 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 311

ROSS GREGORY (1916-1942) ARCHIVE, one of the youngest to play Test cricket, Gregory was selected for Victoria while still a school boy at Wesley College, Melbourne. In 1936-37 he helped Australia recover from the loss of the first two Tests against E...

Auction 31.07.2001
31.07.2001
Schätzpreis
4.000 AU$ - 6.000 AU$
ca. 2.038 $ - 3.057 $
Zuschlagspreis:
4.935 AU$
ca. 2.515 $
Beschreibung:

ROSS GREGORY (1916-1942) ARCHIVE, one of the youngest to play Test cricket, Gregory was selected for Victoria while still a school boy at Wesley College, Melbourne. In 1936-37 he helped Australia recover from the loss of the first two Tests against England to win the next three and retain the ashes. Gregory's 80 in the decisive fifth Test overshadowed even the batting of Bradman. This was gregory's second Test and his 80 came on the day before his 21st birthday. It was also his last test as he was killed while serving with the RAAF, aged 26 COMPRISING MANUSCRIPT WARTIME DIARY, 7 June 1941 - 9 May 1942, a remarkable document commencing with Gregory's engagement to Barbara and departure from Melbourne's Showgrounds Railway Station with 500 ground staff and 32 air crew (Gregory had been selected for observation duties on night bombers) for Sydney and the ship for England. In England his bomber squadron is based at Waterbeck, near Cambridge in East Anglia. From here Gregory takes part in intensive bombing campaigns in Europe and Germany, particularly Aachen, Brest and Bremen (to bomb the german battleship Scharnhorst). There is time for socialising, he visits Cambvridge, London, Scotland, Belfast, Dublin. In England he meets Plum Warner, Gubby Allen, Percy Chapman and plays cricket taking part in inter-service matches. He feels that Lord's cricket ground is not as good as his own St.Kilda District Cricket Oval. He experiences a lot of battle action, with several near-misses including one occasion where the pilot of 'Wimpy' bomber passed out. e detests the English class system and is deeply frustrated and resentful of British Air Force officialdom and their treatment of Australian RAAF personnel. In January 1942 he receives news of his transfer to the east, where he is keen to confront the Japanese. He also receives news of his commission. He is possted Navigator in an Australian crew of 215 Squadron and shoertly after his birthday on 28th February 1942, at 26, he transferred to India. They fly to Gibralta and then Malta, which is in the midst of an intensive bombing campaign by the Germans, on to Fyum aerodrome, 15 miles south west of Cairo. The diary ends on 9th May with Gregory preparing to travel to port Tufick, near Suez, to take a ship to India. He decides to send his diary home to Australia with a couple of returning officers. He died shortly after, on active service in Assam, India Ross Gregory's long-sleeved official Australian pullover, and long-sleeved Victorian pullover, both inscribed in ink on labels Bowling and Fielding Trophy cups presented to Gregory by his school, Wesley College, 1932 (bowling average 20 wickets for 440 runs) 1934 (Fielding Trophy). Gregory made his debut for Victoria in 1932 Three badges; silver badge for achieving his football colours at Wesley; circket cap badge; Head of the river rowing badge Sepia photographic full-length portrait of Ross Gregory and Bruce Dooland going out to bat in a wartime inter-service match, 28 x 23 cm, taken from an original negative, framed and glazed

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 311
Auktion:
Datum:
31.07.2001
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
Melbourne
Beschreibung:

ROSS GREGORY (1916-1942) ARCHIVE, one of the youngest to play Test cricket, Gregory was selected for Victoria while still a school boy at Wesley College, Melbourne. In 1936-37 he helped Australia recover from the loss of the first two Tests against England to win the next three and retain the ashes. Gregory's 80 in the decisive fifth Test overshadowed even the batting of Bradman. This was gregory's second Test and his 80 came on the day before his 21st birthday. It was also his last test as he was killed while serving with the RAAF, aged 26 COMPRISING MANUSCRIPT WARTIME DIARY, 7 June 1941 - 9 May 1942, a remarkable document commencing with Gregory's engagement to Barbara and departure from Melbourne's Showgrounds Railway Station with 500 ground staff and 32 air crew (Gregory had been selected for observation duties on night bombers) for Sydney and the ship for England. In England his bomber squadron is based at Waterbeck, near Cambridge in East Anglia. From here Gregory takes part in intensive bombing campaigns in Europe and Germany, particularly Aachen, Brest and Bremen (to bomb the german battleship Scharnhorst). There is time for socialising, he visits Cambvridge, London, Scotland, Belfast, Dublin. In England he meets Plum Warner, Gubby Allen, Percy Chapman and plays cricket taking part in inter-service matches. He feels that Lord's cricket ground is not as good as his own St.Kilda District Cricket Oval. He experiences a lot of battle action, with several near-misses including one occasion where the pilot of 'Wimpy' bomber passed out. e detests the English class system and is deeply frustrated and resentful of British Air Force officialdom and their treatment of Australian RAAF personnel. In January 1942 he receives news of his transfer to the east, where he is keen to confront the Japanese. He also receives news of his commission. He is possted Navigator in an Australian crew of 215 Squadron and shoertly after his birthday on 28th February 1942, at 26, he transferred to India. They fly to Gibralta and then Malta, which is in the midst of an intensive bombing campaign by the Germans, on to Fyum aerodrome, 15 miles south west of Cairo. The diary ends on 9th May with Gregory preparing to travel to port Tufick, near Suez, to take a ship to India. He decides to send his diary home to Australia with a couple of returning officers. He died shortly after, on active service in Assam, India Ross Gregory's long-sleeved official Australian pullover, and long-sleeved Victorian pullover, both inscribed in ink on labels Bowling and Fielding Trophy cups presented to Gregory by his school, Wesley College, 1932 (bowling average 20 wickets for 440 runs) 1934 (Fielding Trophy). Gregory made his debut for Victoria in 1932 Three badges; silver badge for achieving his football colours at Wesley; circket cap badge; Head of the river rowing badge Sepia photographic full-length portrait of Ross Gregory and Bruce Dooland going out to bat in a wartime inter-service match, 28 x 23 cm, taken from an original negative, framed and glazed

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 311
Auktion:
Datum:
31.07.2001
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
Melbourne
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