1. Norman Gregg was educated at Homebush Grammar School and Sydney Grammar School, and then studied medicine at the University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery and first-class honours in 1915.
10 Facts About Norman Gregg
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Norman Gregg served on the Western Front during World War I attached to the East Yorkshire Regiment's 17th Battalion, and later with the 52nd Field Ambulance.
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Norman Gregg left the army on 7 March 1920, retaining the rank of captain.
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Norman Gregg untiringly attended to the wounded under heavy enemy fire until the last man was cleared, and showed great coolness and devotion to duty.
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Norman Gregg worked persistently throughout the raid in the open, and searched for any wounded that might have been overlooked.
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Norman Gregg returned to England to study ophthalmology, gaining a diploma of ophthalmic medicine and surgery after training at Moorfields Eye Hospital and Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital in London, and the Birmingham and Midland Counties Eye Hospital.
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Norman Gregg returned to Sydney, where he set up a practice in 1923.
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When World War II began, Norman Gregg was a paediatric ophthalmologist, at a time when most doctors had joined the army and he was one of few eye doctors in Sydney.
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On 15 October 1941, Norman Gregg delivered a paper, Congenital Cataract following German Measles in the Mother, to the Ophthalmological Society of Australia in Melbourne which published it in its journal, Transactions.
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Norman Gregg was a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.