Jeff Grieve

Jeff Grieve
Personal information
Full name Jeffrey James Grieve[1]
Date of birth (1918-01-27)27 January 1918
Place of birth Armadale, Victoria
Date of death 8 November 1944(1944-11-08) (aged 26)
Place of death Glenshee, Scotland
Original team(s) McKinnon[2]
Height/Weight 173 cm / 70 kg
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1941 South Melbourne 11 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to end of 1941 season.

Flight Sergeant Jeffrey James Grieve (27 January 1918 – 8 November 1944)[3][4] was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Originally from McKinnon, Grieve made 11 appearances for South Melbourne, which all came in the 1941 VFL season.[5][6]

He was a second cousin of Carlton player Ollie Grieve.[7]

Military

Grieve, who worked as a baker, enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in 1942.[8] On 8 November 1944, Grieve was one of seven men on board a bomber (Halifax LK901), which crashed during a cross-country training exercise.[9][10][11] The plane took off from Sandtoft, Lincolnshire and broke up mid air, before it came down in Glenshee, Scotland.[12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Roll of Honour – Jeffrey James Grieve". Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  2. ↑ "Doherty, Bragg Cleared.". The Argus (Melbourne: National Library of Australia). 25 April 1940. p. 14. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  3. ↑ "Deaths: On Active Service: Grieve", The Argus, (Wednesday 15 November 1944), p.2.
  4. ↑ "Family Notices: In Memoriam; Grieve.". The Argus (Melbourne: National Library of Australia). 8 November 1947. p. 11. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  5. ↑ Main, Jim. In The Blood: South Melbourne - Sydney Swans Football Club. Seaford, Victoria: Bas Publishing. ISBN 9781921496011.
  6. ↑ "AFL Tables - Jeff Grieve - Games Played". AFL Tables. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
  7. ↑ Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 9781920910785.
  8. ↑ "World War Two Nominal Roll". Government of Australia. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  9. ↑ "World War II Aviation Crash Sites in Scotland - Halifax LK901". Archie RAF. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  10. ↑ "Players Killed on Active Service - AFL Records on Service from Boer War / WW1 / WW2 - AFL.com.au". AFL. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  11. ↑ "RAAF Casualty List: Overseas: Killed Aircraft Accident", The Argus, (Thursday, 7 December 1944), p.11.
  12. ↑ "ASN Aircraft accident 08-NOV-1944 Handley Page Halifax LK901". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 26 September 2014.

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