GREGG-MACGREGGOR, John Vivian Fortescue
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Chaplains' Department |
| Born: | Gloucester, England, 1874 |
| Home Town: | Glebe, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Church of England Clerk in Holy Orders |
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World War 1 Service
| 30 May 1916: | Involvement Australian Army Chaplains' Department, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Persic embarkation_ship_number: A34 public_note: '' | |
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| 30 May 1916: | Embarked Australian Army Chaplains' Department, HMAT Persic, Sydney |
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Awarded Distinguished Conduct Medal
'For conspicuous bravery and self sacrifice in attending to wounded on 25th April and subsequently after the landing at Gaba Tepe. These two men were continuously under fire for three days, dressing and collecting wounded from the most exposed positions.'
LONG WAR SERVICE.
STRETCHER-BEARER AND CHAPLAIN.
REV. J. V. F. GREGG-MACGREGOR, D.C.M.
Standing over six feet three inches in his military boots, Chaplain-Major John Vivian Fortescue Gregg-Macgregor might easily have been picked out In the group of officers at the landing of the Plassy contingent of returned soldiers on Saturday last. An English-man by birth, and the son of the Rev. Dr.Gregg-Macgregor, this Oxford University graduate was preparing for holy orders In the Church of England before he came to Australia. Shortly after his arrival in New South Wales he commenced clerical work in the Diocese of Newcastle, and he was ordained by the late Bishop Stretch. At the outbreak ofwar he was curate at Scone.
One of the first In this State to respond to the call of Empire, the patriotic curate enlisted as a private, and went away with the Australian Army Medical Corps. He served through the worst of the Gallipoli campaign as a stretcher-bearer, and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal shortly after the memorable landing. Finding a wounded Australian soldier in the firing line he put the 16-stone man, so it is chronicled, on his back, and carried him a mile and a half.
Next day the stretcher-bearer from Scone was both astonished and delighted when he was told that he had saved the life of a Scone man. When the stretcher-bearer was Invalided to Australia in 1916 the invalided Scone man he had carried to safety under fire was one of the first to meet and thank him.
When the stretcher-bearer was sent away three months later it was as a Church of England chaplain. Wounded while carrying out his duties as chaplain in France, he was sent to England. On his recovery he returned to France, and was a second time invalided to England In December last, after an attack influenza.
The chaplain was accompanied from England by his wife, who went there to assist in war work. Mr. E. T. Newhouse, father-inlaw, had a motor car on Saturday at the wharf to take the chaplain and Mrs. Gregg-Macgregor direct to his residence In Hereford street, Glebe.
Sydney Morning Herald Monday 05 May 1919 page 6
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