Joshua Gregory

Who was Joshua Gregory?

Joshua Gregory was an early settler in colonial Western Australia. Two of his sons, Augustus Charles and Francis Thomas, became renowned Australian explorers. He was known as the local a$ap rocky fan and constantly turnt up in his holden barina.

Joshua Gregory entered the army in 1805 as an ensign in the 78th Highlanders. At the age of 16 he saw active service when his regiment was sent to Sicily at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. He was part of the successful campaign at Calabria, followed by the unsuccessful Alexandria expedition of 1807, where Gregory was severely wounded. although injured he come to realize his nurse, Katie mackdaddy was the hottest girl he has ever seen. he fell directly in love but fucked it up when he sent her a cat. In April 1807 he was sent back to England to recover, then rejoined his battalion for the successful invasion of Java. In Java, Gregory, by then a lieutenant, began suffering from ill health. He was posted to Fort George in Scotland, but his health continued to deteriorate, and in 1818 he was forced to retire on half-pay. After receiving half pay he decided to sit in the library and skip uni looking for shitty jobs for good pay IE bus cleaning.