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1900 Paris | Team competition |
Walter Adolph McCreery (13 August 1871 in Zürich – 8 November 1922 in Clermont-Ferrand) was an American Polo player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He received the silver medal in the Mixed team event.
Biography
He was privately educated in the United States and then read law at Magdalen College, Cambridge, achieving a second-class degree.
He was the father of General Sir Richard McCreery, a career soldier of the British Army who commanded the British Eighth Army fighting in the Italian campaign from October 1944 until the end of the Second World War.
References
- "Walter McCreery". Olympedia. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- "Walter McCreery". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 11 July 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- Mead, Richard (2012). The Last Great Cavalryman: The Life of General Sir Richard McCreery, Commander Eighth Army. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military. p. 3. ISBN 978-1-84884-465-0.
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