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General Sir Richard Loudon McCreery, GCB, KBE, DSO, MC (1 February 1898 – 18 October 1967), was a career soldier of the British Army, who was Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, during the Second World War, at the time of the Second Battle of El Alamein and later commanded the British Eighth Army in Northern Italy from late 1944 onwards. ==Background and early life== Richard (Dick) Loudon McCreery was born on 1 February 1898, the eldest son of Walter A. McCreery of Bilton Park, Rugby, a Swiss-born American who spent most of his life in England but who represented the United States at polo at the 1900 Summer Olympics. His mother was Emilia McAdam, a direct descendant of the Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam, known to his contemporaries as "The Colossus of Roads", for his invention of the process of Macadamizing. John McAdam’s achievements are still commemorated today in the word ‘tarmac’. McCreery was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Like many idealistic young men of his generation, McCreery exaggerated his age in order to enter the Army on the outbreak of the First World War.
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