Walter McCreery explained

Mixed teamWalter 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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Walter McCreery . Olympedia . 28 April 2021.
  2. Web site: Walter McCreery . Sports Reference . 28 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170711225630/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mc/walter-mccreery-1.html . 11 July 2017.
  3. Book: Mead, Richard . 2012 . The Last Great Cavalryman: The Life of General Sir Richard McCreery, Commander Eighth Army . Barnsley . Pen & Sword Military . 3 . 978-1-84884-465-0.