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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 decorated...
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  • editor Ned McCreery (c. 1945 – 1992), Northern Irish Loyalist paramilitary Richard McCreery (1898–1967), British career soldier Scotty McCreery (born 1993)...
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  • Retrieved 28 April 2021. Mead, Richard (2012). The Last Great Cavalryman: The Life of General Sir Richard McCreery, Commander Eighth Army. Barnsley:...
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  • Christmas with Scotty McCreery is the Christmas album by season ten American Idol winner Scotty McCreery. The album was released on October 16, 2012, in...
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    General Ernest J. Dawley, the British X Corps under Lieutenant-General Richard McCreery, with the 82nd Airborne Division in reserve, a total of eight divisions...
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  • in normal people. Charles McCreery was born at Stanton St. John in Oxfordshire. He is the son of General Sir Richard McCreery and Lettice, daughter of...
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    1952 Llewellyn Thompson 17 July 1952 - 27 July 1955 British zone: Richard McCreery July 1945 - March 1946 James Steele March 1946 - October 1947 Alexander...
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    recovering. He was replaced as GOC of X Corps by Lieutenant-General Sir Richard McCreery. It was a year before Horrocks recovered sufficiently to tell Field...
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    General Ernest J. Dawley, the X British Corps under Lieutenant-General Richard McCreery, and the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division in reserve, a total of about nine...
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    This reduced the Eighth Army, now commanded by Lieutenant-General Richard McCreery, to seven divisions. Two other British divisions were to follow them...
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    Succeeded by The Viscount Cobham Military offices Preceded by Sir Richard McCreery Colonel of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers 1961–1967 Succeeded by The Viscount...
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    150 years and was originally a congregational church. General Sir Richard McCreery (1898–1967), Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Harold Alexander, 1st...
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    Neil Ritchie, Claude Auchinleck, Bernard Montgomery, Oliver Leese and Richard McCreery In the early years of the war Eighth Army suffered from poor leadership...
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    two companies) Corps deployed west to east: Lieutenant-General Sir Richard McCreery Army troops 7th Hussars (amphibious tanks) 12th Lancers (armoured cars)...
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    General Clark, was for the British X Corps, under Lieutenant General Richard McCreery, on the left of a thirty-kilometre (20 mi) front, to attack on 17 January...
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    Mangin, general, French Army Paul Maistre, general, French Army Sir Richard McCreery, general, British Army Lord Alfred Milner, British Secretary of State...
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  • Commissioner (1950–1952) British zone High Commissioners (complete list) – Richard McCreery, High Commissioner (1945–1946) James Steele, High Commissioner (1946–1947)...
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    his old regiment, the 12th Royal Lancers in succession to Colonel Richard McCreery. He was still in command of the regiment, now converted to armoured...
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    Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery 1945 to 1946 Lieutenant General Sir Richard McCreery 1946 to 1948 Lieutenant General Sir Brian Horrocks 1948 Lieutenant...
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    7th Armoured Division. Here it was commanded by Lieutenant-General Richard McCreery. After Salerno it continued to fight on the Fifth Army's left wing...
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  • Commander: Lieutenant-General Mark Wayne Clark Lieutenant-General Sir Richard McCreery British 5th Infantry Division (Major-General Gerald Bucknall to 22...
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  • Same Truck (category Scotty McCreery albums)
    studio album by American country music artist Scotty McCreery. Its lead single, "You Time", is McCreery's fourth consecutive single to reach number one on...
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    mortars and rocket launchers were also captured. Lieutenant-General Sir Richard McCreery, commanding the British Eighth Army, sent a message to Brigadier Tod...
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    Murray. ISBN 978-0-674-01376-6. McKee, Alexander (1984). Caen: Anvil of Victory. Papermac. ISBN 978-0-333-38313-1. Mead, Richard (2007). Churchill's Lions:...
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    overall Allied war priorities. In October, Lieutenant General Sir Richard McCreery succeeded Lieutenant General Sir Oliver Leese as the commander of the...
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    Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO 1947– Gen. Sir Richard McCreery, GCB, KBE, DSO, MC 1950–?1952 Gen. Sir Charles Keightley, GCB, GBE, DSO 1958–...
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    rest of the defenses to get in place. At 5 a.m. he initiated Operation "Richard" and ordered the Kampfgruppe of 4th Parachute Division and the Hermann...
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    CD ADC Colonels of the Regiment were: 1960–1961: Gen. Sir Richard McCreery, GCB, KBE, DSO, MC (ex 12th Royal Lancers) 1961–1967: Maj. (Hon. Lt-Col.) Gerald...
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  • of Great Britain in 1963. CDRCU was led by Michael McCreery, the son of General Sir Richard McCreery. CDRCU was sympathetic towards the Chinese Communist...
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    29. Among his many fellow students were men such as John Harding, Richard McCreery, Gordon MacMillan, Alexander Galloway, Gerard Bucknall, Philip Gregson-Ellis...
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