Walter McCreery

Mixed team Walter Adolph McCreery (13 August 1871 in Zurich – 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.