PERSONALIA
 
Name:  McCreery, Richard Loudon "Dick"
Date of birth: February 1st, 1898 (Market Harborough/Leicestershire, East Midlands, United Kingdom)
Date of death:  October 18th, 1967 (Templecombe/Somerset, South West England, United Kingdom)
Nationality:  British
     
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER (DSO)
Rank: Colonel
Unit: General Staff Officer 1st grade, 1st Division, British Expeditionary Force
Awarded on: September 27th, 1940
Action: For Galant and distinguished services in action in connection with operations in the field
 
     
MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES
Rank: Brigadier
Unit: Commanding General 8th Armoured Division, British Army
Awarded on: April 29th, 1941
 
     
COMPANION OF THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH (CB)
Rank: Major-general
Unit: Chief of General Staff, Middle East
Awarded on: February 18th, 1943
 
     
COMMANDER OF THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH (KCB/DCB)
Rank: Major-general
Unit: General Officer Commanding, X Corps, Eighth Army, British Army
Awarded on: August 5th, 1943
 
     
LEGION OF MERIT - OFFICER (LOM - O)
Rank: Major-general
Unit: General Officer Commanding, X Corps, Eighth Army, British Army
Awarded on: August 10th, 1943
 
     
MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES
Rank: Major-general
Unit: General Officer Commanding, X Corps, Eighth Army, British Army
Awarded on: January 13th, 1944
 
     
BASILIKON TAGMA TOY PHOINIKOS - GRAND COMMANDER
Rank: Major-general
Unit: General Officer Commanding, X Corps, Eighth Army, British Army
Awarded on: June 20th, 1944
 
     
KNIGHTS/DAMES COMMANDERS OF THE ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE (K/DBE)
Rank: Lieutenant-general
Unit: General Officer Commanding Eighth Army, British Army
Awarded on: July 5th, 1945
 
     
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL - ARMY (DSM)
Rank: Lieutenant-general
Unit: General Officer Commanding Eighth Army, British Army
Awarded on: August 2nd, 1945
 
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Information source(s):   - SMART, N., Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War, Pen & Sword Books Limited, Barnsley, England, 2005.
- Mead, R., Churchill’s Lions – A Biographical Guide to the Key British Generals of World War II, Spellmount Publishers Ltd., Chalford, England, 2007
- Supplement to The london Gazette of 27th September 1940, Issue 34944, dated 27th September 1940
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