Greasley (surname)

Last updated April 04, 2019

Greasley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Andrew Greasley (born 1960), English cricketer
Douglas Greasley (1926–2011), English cricketer
Horace Greasley (1918–2010), British Army soldier and World War II prisoner of war

Andrew David Greasley was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler who played for Cheshire. He was born in Leicester.

Douglas George Greasley was a professional Cricketer who spent his entire career at Northamptonshire.

Joseph Horace "Jim" Greasley was a British soldier in the Second World War who was captured in May 1940 by the German Wehrmacht and later became famous for claiming that he escaped from his camp over 200 times in the conduct of a clandestine love affair, returning into captivity each time. He was the subject of a best-selling autobiography which has been criticised for sensationalism. He was also the subject of controversy for having claimed that he was the prisoner of war shown in a photograph staring at Heinrich Himmler, when the prisoner in question is identified elsewhere as a Soviet soldier.

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