# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-mccreery
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:23:44.724Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-mccreery"
name: "Richard McCreery"
slug: "richard-mccreery"
description: "General Sir Richard Loudon McCreery, was a career soldier of the British Army, who was decorated for leading one of the last cavalry actions in the First World War. During the Second World War, he was chief of staff to General Sir Harold Alexander at the time of the Second Battle of El Alamein, and later commanded the British Eighth Army, fighting in the Italian campaign from October 1944 until the end of the war, leading it to victory in the final offensive in Italy."
tagline: "British Army general (1898–1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/New_Eighth_Army_Commander_at_Tac_Eighth_Army_Headquarters%2C_Italy%2C_1_October_1944_TR2377.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1898-02-01"
deathDate: "1967-10-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           12.90450266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump