{{short description|Australian rules footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=July 2016}} {{Infobox AFL biography | name = Norm Grigg | image = | fullname = Norman Cecil Grigg | birth_date = {{birth date|1893|06|22|df=y}} | birth_place = Drysdale, Victoria | death_date = {{death date and age|1945|07|01|1893|06|22|df=y}} | death_place = Melbourne, Victoria | originalteam = Portarlington | height = | weight = | position = | statsend = 1911 | years1 = 1911 | club1 = {{AFL Gee}} | games_goals1 = 4 (1) | careerhighlights = }}
'''Norman Cecil Grigg''' (22 June 1893 – 1 July 1945) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).<ref>Holmesby & Main (2014), p. 344.</ref>
==Family== The son of Thomas Tobias Grigg (1851–1930),<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article203102116 Deaths: Grigg, ''The Age'', (Tuesday, 18 February 1930), p. 1.]</ref> and Katherine Douglas Grigg (1854–1946), née Williamson,<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article150470427 Marriage: Grigg—Williamson, ''The Geelong Advertiser'', (Tuesday, 14 August 1877), p. 1.]</ref><ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22314444 Deaths: Grigg, ''The Argus'', (Wednesday, 3 July 1946), p. 16.]</ref> Norman Cecil Grigg was born at Drysdale, Victoria on 22 June 1893.<ref>''Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria'' Births Registration no.19365/1893.</ref>
One of his brothers, Richard Randolph "Dick" Grigg (1885–1972) also played VFL football with Geelong.
==Football== ===Geelong (VFL)=== In 1911 he played in four games for Geelong in the VFL. Not only did he play the four games alongside his brother, Dick, but also alongside the Eason brothers, Bill and Alec.
==Military service== Employed as the manager of the Portarlington flax mill, he enlisted in the First AIF in August 1915,<ref>Nominal Roll.</ref> and served overseas in France, where he was wounded in action (he was "gassed") in August 1918. He was invalided to England, and returned to his unit in November 1918.<ref>Service Record.</ref> He returned to Australia on the '''HMAT''' ''Orontes'' in June 1919.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article165749045 Pte. L.T. Hodges, ''The Geelong Advertiser'', (Tuesday, 1 July 1919), p.4.]</ref>
==Death== He died on 1 July 1945.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article973113 Deaths: Grigg, ''The Argus'', (Monday, 2 July 1945), p. 2.]</ref>
== Notes == {{reflist}}
==References== * {{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 |last1=Holmesby|first1=Russell|last2=Main|first2=Jim |year=2014 |edition=10th |isbn=978-1-921496-32-5 |publisher=BAS Publishing |location=Seaford, Victoria}} *[https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1067411/large/5370125.JPG First World War Embarkation Roll: Private Cecil Norman Grigg (sic) (3533), collection of ''National Archives of Australia''.] * [https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1068905/large/5358779.JPG First World War Nominal Roll: Private Norman Cecil Grigg (3533), collection of ''National Archives of Australia''.] * [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article242723899 Casualty List No.431, ''The (Melbourne) Herald'', (Saturday 5 October 1918), p. 6]: "Wounded: Pte. N.C. Grigg, Werribee (gas)." * [https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4703841 First World War Service Record: Private Norman Cecil Grigg (3533), collection of ''National Archives of Australia''.] * [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article211045068 Drysdale Flax Factory, ''The Geelong Advertiser'', (Wednesday, 14 January 1925), p. 4.] * [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62685504 Flax Industry: Mechanical Retting: Elimination of Bulk Handling, ''The Gippsland Times'', (Monday, 27 January 1930), p. 3.]
== External links == * {{AFL Tables|ref=N/Norm_Grigg.html}} * {{AustralianFootball|ref=norm%2Bgrigg/2851}}
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