Date of birth 1 January 1889 Years Team Apps (Gls) | Place of birth Leith, Scotland Team Apps | |
Full name Alexander Ramsay Grosert | ||
Alexander Ramsay "Sandy" Grosert MC was a Scottish amateur football right half who played in the Scottish League for Hibernian and Aberdeen.
Personal life
Grosert served in McCrae's Battalion, the Machine Gun Corps and the Gordon Highlanders of the British Army during the First World War. Grosert was serving as a second lieutenant in the Gordon Highlanders in 1918 when he performed an action which was recognised with the Military Cross:
For conspicuous gallantry in charge of a platoon during the operations near Rœux on August 27th, 1918. When the troops on his left flank retired and the enemy made a determined bombing attack on his position, he continued to go over the open under fire from one post to another directing and encouraging the men. He held on till only four of the men were left, and he was almost surrounded. He behaved splendidly.
Grosert was severely gassed and wounded during the war. After his retirement from football, he became an amateur golfer and was also a qualified dentist.