by Richard Mead
at Runwick
at College House
wartime separations
in Austria
in Germany
influence on Dick’s decision to retire early
in America
McCreery, Mary (Dick’s great- grandmother)
McCreery, May (Dick’s aunt)
McCreery, Michael (Dick’s son)
McCreery, General Sir Richard
personal
appearance
character
health
nicknames
sense of humour
temper
family
McCreery family
McAdam family
brothers (see McCreery, Jack, Robert and Selby)
parents’ separation
killing of brother Bob
father’s decline and death
wife (see McCreery, Lettice)
children (see McCreery, Charles, Jonathan, Michael, Robert and Sarah)
death of grandmother
suicide of brother Jack
death of mother
rift with son Michael
death of Michael
rift with son Charles
childhood and schooldays
childhood
St Michael’s
Eton
equestrian activities
learning to ride
hunting (see also Blackmore Vale Hunt)
polo
steeplechasing (see also Newbury and Wincanton racecourses)
wins Grand Military Gold Cup
showjumping
skill-at-arms
organizations (see British Horse Society, Grand Military Race Committee, Hurlingham Polo Association, National Hunt Committee)
horses
Annie Darling
Canute
Fox-Trot
Hikari
Jumbo
Perugia
Kilbay
Old Hat
Twelfth Lancer
dogs
Beetle
Jeannie
other activities and interests
cars
cooking
flower arranging
gardening
golf
skiing
youth (see King’s School, Bruton, St John’s School, Leatherhead and Somerset Association of Boys Clubs)
orders and decorations
MC
MBE
DSO
CB
KCB
Legion of Merit
KBE
Distinguished Service Medal
GCB
military career: Great War
at Sandhurst
commissioned into 12th Lancers
training in Ireland
with regiment in France
wounded at Arras
recovery and convalescence
promoted lieutenant
exploits at end of war
military career: between the wars
in Germany and Belgium
in Ireland
at Tidworth
at Small Arms School
at Cavalry School
as Adjutant
promoted captain
at Hounslow
in Egypt 1927
promoted major
at Staff College
as BMCavalry Division
in Egypt 1933 – 34
at Senior Officers School
as CO 12th Lancers
in Egypt 1936
promoted colonel
GSO1Division
military career: 1939 – 42
withDivision in BEF
CommanderArmoured Brigade
campaign in France with Second BEF
training in England
promoted major general
GOCArmoured Division
in Exercise Bumper
CommanderArmoured Group
military career: 1942 – 43
Adviser AFV to Auchinleck
actions during Gazala and First Alamein battles
opposes Auchinleck on reorganization and use of armour
meets Churchill and Brooke
sacked by Auchinleck
appointed COS to Alexander
promoted lieutenant general
proposes Lumsden for command of X Corps
resents Montgomery’s attitude towards Alexander
opinion of Montgomery
contribution to Operation Supercharge
frustrated by Eighth Army pursuit
transfers toh Army Group with Alexander
and Patton and Bradley
on tension between First and Eighth Armies
plans final battle in Tunisia
military career: 1943 – 44
returns to England
lecture tour
appointed GOC VIII Corps
appointed GOC X Corps
and Clark
in Operation Avalanche
and Salerno Mutiny
ambushed
in crossing of the Volturno
at Monte Camino
in crossing of the Garigliano
in Apennine sector
in the Tiber and Upper Arno Valleys
reaches the Gothic Line
military career: 1944 – 45
appointed Commander Eighth Army
advances up Adriatic coast
and Truscott
and morale and manpower
and Desert Air Force
and training for last battle
uses ‘whizzer’ for reconnaissance
persuades Anders to keep Poles in Eighth Army
plan for Operation Buckland
launches last battle
activates XIII Corps
ordersArmoured Division forward
succeeds in enveloping enemy
and crossing of the Po and the Adige
orders Freyberg to take Venice and Trieste
and German surrender
and Yugoslavs
and repatriation of Cossacks and Croats
military career: 1945 – 46
appointed Commander BTA and High Commissioner in Austria
and morale
and Austrian economy
and Konev
visited by family
transfer resisted by Bevin
relations with Austrians
military career: 1946 – 48
appointed Commander BAOR
differences with Montgomery
and morale
visited by family
military career: 1948 – 49
appointed British Representative on UN MSC
promoted general
and MSC
retires from Army
retirement
decision to retire
retirement appointments
interest in farming
and amalgamation of cavalry regiments
opposition to Suez
and controversial article in regimental journal
battlefield tour with Alexander
begins writing military memoirs
McCreery, Richard (Dick’s great-uncle)
McCreery, Richard (Dick’s grandson)
McCreery, Robert (‘Bob’) (Dick’s brother)
McCreery, Robert (‘Bob’) (Dick’s son)
McCreery, Samuel (Dick’s great-grandfather) 1
McCreery, Sarah, later Meynell (Dick’s daughter)
McCreery, Selby (Dick’s brother)
McCreery, Walter (Dick’s father)
McCreery Estate Company
McCreery Ranch
Mack, Sir Henry
MacMillan of MacMillan, General Sir Gordon
Macmillan, Harold (Earl of Stockton)
McNaughton, General A.G.L.
Magazzeno
Maiore
Makins, Sir Roger
Malcolm, Betty
Mareth Line
Marshall, General of the Army George C.
Medecina
Medenine
Menate
Mersa Matruh
Messe, Field Marshal Giovanni
Messervy, General Sir Frank
Meynell, Alexander (Dick’s grandson)
Meynell, Captain Hugo (Dick’s son-in-law)
Meynell, Luke (Dick’s grandson)
Meynell, Sarah (see McCreery, Sarah)
Mihailovic, Draza
Military Staff Committee of the UN
Miller, Major General C.H.
Miller-Brown, Lieutenant G.
Minturno
Miss Guest’s Hunt
Mitchell, Major General F.N.
Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Lieutenant Colonel Lord William
Monte Camino
Monte Cedrone
Montecorvino
Monte della Gorgace
Monte Farneto
Monte Grande
Monte Grosso
Monte Malbe
Monte Massico
Monte Porchia
Monte Sammucro
Montgomery of Alamein, Field Marshal
Viscount
instructor at Staff College
Dick’s opinion of
arrives in Egypt
accepts Lumsden as corps commander
at Alam Halfa
relationship with Alexander
Dick stands up to
opinion of Dick
and Operation Lightfoot
and Operation Supercharge
fails to cut off Rommel
sacks Lumsden
attitude to First Army
releases divisions to First Army
as CIGS
prevents appointments of Dick as VCIGS and C-in-C Germany
visits BAOR
and Dick’s decision to leave Army
criticized publicly by Dick
Montgomery-Massingberd, Field Marshal Sir Archibald
Morgan, Lieutenant General Sir Frederick
Morgan, General Sir William
Morgenthau, Henry
Morley, Veronica
Morshead, Lieutenant General Sir Leslie
Morris, General Sir Edwin
Mostaganem
Mountbatten of Burma, Admiral of the Fleet Earl
Mow, Lieutenant General Pon-tsu
Moy
Murray, General Sir Horatius
Naples
National Hunt Committee
Nevasa, TS
Newbury Racecourse
New York
Nicholson, Brigadier C.
Nivelle, General Robert
Nocera
Nolleval
Norfolk, Bernard, Duke of
Norman, Bill
Norman, Major General C.W.
Norrie, Lieutenant General Lord
Nye, Lieutenant General Sir Archibald
O’Connor, General Sir Richard
Ogilvy, Major The Hon. Bruce
Oisement
Olive, Operation
Oliver, Admiral Sir Geoffrey
O’Rourke, Maurice
Packard, Lieutenant General Sir Douglas
Padua
Paestum
Paget, General Sir Bernard
Paget, Captain N.D.
Palazzo del Pero
Palmer, Lieutenant Colonel R.H.
Patton, General George S.
Paynter, Colonel G.
Penney, Major General Sir Ronald
Pert, Alan
Perugia
Pesche
Petiet, Lieutenant General Robert
Peto, Brigadier C.
Piccione
Picquigny
Pike, Bishop Victor
Piping Rock Country Club
Plumtree, Corporal
Plunkett-Greene, Alexander
Po, River and Valley
Po Morte, River
Poggio Renatico
Pompeii
Ponsonby, Major General Sir Frederick
Pont de l’Arche
Pontecagnano
Pontelagoscuro
Pope, Lieutenant General V.V.
Powell, Major T.
Pownall, Lieutenant General Sir Henry
Quant, Mary
Queen Elizabeth, RMS
Queen Mary, RMS
Quinan, General Sir Edward
RAC War Memorial Benefit Fund
Ramsden, Major General W.H.C.
Rapido, River
Ravenna
Rawlinson, General Lord
Rawnsley, Major J.R.C.
Reid, Major General D.W.
Renner, President Karl
Reno, River
Rice-Oxley, Sir Alfred
Richardson, General Sir Charles
Rigby, Sir Hugh Mallinson
Rimini
Ripa Ridge
Ritchie, General Sir Neil
Roberts, Corporal J.
Robertson of Oakridge, General Lord
Robey, George
Roccamonfina
Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin
Ronco, River
Roosevelt, President Franklin D.
Rovigo
Royal Air Force
Air Force
Desert
other
2271 Field Squadron, RAF Regiment
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Rudnicki, Major General Klemens
Runwick
Russell, Lieutenant General Sir Dudley
Russell, Brigadier H.E.
St John’s School, Leatherhead
St Maur, Lady Ernest (Lettice’s Aunt Dora)
St Maur, Helen (see Gosling, Helen)
St Maur, Lettice (see McCreery, Lettice)
St Maur, Lucia (see Gosling, Lucia)
St Maur, Lady Violet, née White (Lettice’s mother)
St Maur, Lord Percy (Lettice’s father)
St Michael’s School
St Mary’s School, Wantage
St Valéry-en-Caux
Salerno (see also Avalanche)
Salerno Mutiny
Sandhurst (see Royal Military College)
San Francisco
San Marco
San Marino
Sansepolcro
Santa Maria la Fossa
Santerno, River
Savill, Colonel K.E.
Savio, River
Scafati
Schönbrunn Palace
School of Musketry, Dollymount
Schreiber, John
Scobie, Lieutenant General Sir Ronald
Scott, Major General T.P.D.
Seine, River
Senio, River
Senior Officers School
Sessa Aurunca
Sherborne
Shinwell, Emmanuel, Lord
Sillaro, River
Simpson, General Sir Frank
Skan, Gretan
Slessor, Marshal of the RAF Sir John
Slim, Field Marshal Viscount
Small Arms School
Smith, The Hon. Hugh Vivian
Smith, General Walter Bedell
Society of California Pioneers
Somerset Association of Boys Clubs
Somme, Battle of the
Somme, River
Sorrento
Sparanise
Sparkford Vale Harriers
Sparks, Sir Ashley and Lady
Spicer, Captain F.F.F.
Staff College, Camberley
Stay, Catherine (‘Da’)
Steele, General Sir James
Stewart, Major Patrick
Stowell Hill
Stratton Audley Park
Stratton, Lieutenant General Sir William
Strawson, Major General J.
Strike, Operation
Styles, Major W.
Styria
Supercharge, Operation
Taft, Mr and Mrs Walbridge S.
Teano
Tedder,
Marshal of the RAF Lord
Telegraph Hill
Templer, Field Marshal Sir Gerald
Thomas, General Sir Ivor
Tidworth
Tito, Marshal Josip Broz
Tobruk
Torch, Operation
Torre Annunziata
Tovey, Admiral of the Fleet Lord
Trashurst
Trasimene, Lake
Treflisco
Trieste
Tripoli
Truman, Colonel C.M.
Truman, President Harry S.
Truscott, General Lucian K.
Tuker, Lieutenant General Sir Francis
Tunis
Tweedsmuir, John Buchan, 2nd Lord
Udine
Ulster Monarch, MV
Ultra
Umbertide
United Nations (see Military Staff Committee)
Utili, Lieutenant General Umberto
Vandyck, TSS
Vasiliev, Lieutenant General Alexander
Venetian Line
Venezia Giulia
Venice
Vesuvius, Mount
Vienna
Vietri sul Mare
Vimy Ridge
Vivian, Captain R.G.C.
Vokes, Major General C.
Volterrano
Volturno, River
Von Arnim, Colonel General Hans-Jürgen
Von Senger und Etterlin, Lieutenant General Fridolin
Von Vietinghoff-Scheel, Colonel General Heinrich
Vulcan, Operation
Wadi Akarit
Wadley Manor
Wagstaff, Corporal
Walsh, Major General G.P.
Ward, General Sir Dudley
Warre, Lieutenant Colonel A.J.
Watson, Squadron Sergeant Major
Wavell, Field Marshal Earl
Webb, Brigadier G.
Weir, General Sir George
Wellington, Field Marshal, 1st Duke of
West, Major ‘Tiny’
Whiteley, General Sir John
Whitfield, Major General J.Y.
Williams, Dudley
Williams, Brigadier Sir Edgar
Wilson of Libya, Field Marshal Lord
Wincanton Racecourse
Winterton, Major General Sir John
Wolff, General Karl
Woodd, Colonel B.B.N.
Woodpecker, Operation
Yalta Conference
Ypres
Zheltov, Colonel General Aleksei
