Walter McCreery
{{Short description|American athlete (1871–1922)}}
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{{MedalSport|Men's polo}}
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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.{{cite web |title=Walter McCreery |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/17975 |website=Olympedia |access-date=28 April 2021}}{{cite web |title=Walter McCreery |url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mc/walter-mccreery-1.html |website=Sports Reference |access-date=28 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170711225630/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mc/walter-mccreery-1.html | archive-date=11 July 2017}}
Biography
He was privately educated in the United States and then read law at Magdalen College, Cambridge, achieving a second-class degree.{{cite book |last=Mead |first=Richard |date=2012 |title=The Last Great Cavalryman: The Life of General Sir Richard McCreery, Commander Eighth Army |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3a-_4BEGiOwC |location=Barnsley |publisher=Pen & Sword Military |page=3 |isbn=978-1-84884-465-0}}
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.
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Category:Polo players at the 1900 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic polo players for the United States
Category:Olympic silver medalists for the United States
Category:Medalists at the 1900 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic medalists in polo
Category:Sportspeople from Zurich
Category:American people of Swiss descent
Category:19th-century American sportsmen
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