Walter McCreery

Olympic medal record
Men's polo
Representing a Mixed team
Silver medal – second place 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.[1][2]

Biography

He was privately educated in the United States and then read law at Magdalen College, Cambridge, achieving a second-class degree.[3]

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

  1. ^ "Walter McCreery". Olympedia. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Walter McCreery". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 11 July 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  3. ^ 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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