General Sir Richard McCreery GCB, KBE, DSO, MC (1 February 1898 – 18 October 1967), was a British career soldier, who was Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, at the time of the Second Battle of El Alamein and later commanded the British Eighth Army in Northern Italy during 1944–45.

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  • General Sir Richard McCreery GCB, KBE, DSO, MC (1 February 1898 – 18 October 1967), was a British career soldier, who was Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, at the time of the Second Battle of El Alamein and later commanded the British Eighth Army in Northern Italy during 1944–45.
  • Richard Loudon McCreery, GCB (Caballero de la Orden del Baño), KBE (Caballero Comendador de la Orden del Imperio Británico), DSO, MC (Cruz Militar, nacido el 1 de febrero de 1898 en Bilton Park, Rugby y fallecido el 18 de octubre de 1967, fue un militar británico que alcanzó el grado de general en el Ejército británico, destacando por su actuación durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial en las campañas del África del Norte y de Italia, inicialmente como jefe de Estado Mayor del general Harold Alexander en la Segunda Batalla de El Alamein para finalizar con el mando, desde el 1 de octubre de 1944 y hasta el final de la guerra, del 8º Ejército.
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  • 1 February 1898
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  • McCreery in the Inter-war Years
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  • X Corps (Italy) 1944–1945
    Eighth Army 1945–1946
    British Forces of Occupation in Austria, 1946
    British Army of the Rhine, Germany, 1948
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  • 18 October 1967 (aged 69)
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  • 1 October 1944 – July 1945
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  • General Sir Richard McCreery GCB, KBE, DSO, MC (1 February 1898 – 18 October 1967), was a British career soldier, who was Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, at the time of the Second Battle of El Alamein and later commanded the British Eighth Army in Northern Italy during 1944–45.
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