Book of Remembrance entry
GREIG, NORMAN JAMES. 1912.
W.C. and S.C.; 1st year Education; Lieut. Senior Cadets; Resident
Master at Wangaratta G.S. and S.C.; interstate hockey team.
16.1.15, 2/Lt. 7th Btn.; sailed 19.2.15; trained troops in Egypt; on Gallipoli with first rfts. Despatches. Killed in action in German Officers' trench, Gallipoli, on 12th July 1915. He led a body of men into a mine crater, and died, revolver in hand, covering the retreat of his men, whom he had ordered to retire. (See Aust. War History, Vol. II., C. XL, p. 340.)
W.C. and S.C.; 1st year Education; Lieut. Senior Cadets; Resident
Master at Wangaratta G.S. and S.C.; interstate hockey team.
16.1.15, 2/Lt. 7th Btn.; sailed 19.2.15; trained troops in Egypt; on Gallipoli with first rfts. Despatches. Killed in action in German Officers' trench, Gallipoli, on 12th July 1915. He led a body of men into a mine crater, and died, revolver in hand, covering the retreat of his men, whom he had ordered to retire. (See Aust. War History, Vol. II., C. XL, p. 340.)
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?Early education at Wesley College, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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?Early education at Scotch College, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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?Tertiary education at University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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1915Military service as 2nd Lieutenant 16 January 1915
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1915Death in German Officers' Trench -- Gallipoli, Turkey 12 July 1915
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