Walter McCreery

Walter Adolph McCreery (13 August 1871 to 8 November 1922) was an American polo player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics, where he received the silver medal in the mixed team event. He was born in Zurich and died in Clermont-Ferrand. He was educated privately in the United States and then read law at Magdalene College, Cambridge, taking a second-class degree. He was the father of General Sir Richard McCreery, the British Army officer who commanded the British Eighth Army in the Italian campaign from October 1944 until the end of the Second World War. Polo is a mounted team sport in which riders strike a ball with long-handled mallets.