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{{short description|English cricketer and military officer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| fullname = Robin Grey Kreyer
| birth_date = 17 April 1910
| birth_place = [[Multan]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1987|10|16|1910|4|17}}
| death_place = [[Barton Mills]], [[Suffolk]], England
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling = Unknown
| role =
| club1 = [[Oxfordshire County Cricket Club|Oxfordshire]]
| year1 = 1931
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 2
| bat avg1 = 1.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 2
| deliveries1 = 90
| wickets1 = 1
| bowl avg1 = 74.00
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = 1/74
| catches/stumpings1 = –/–
| date = 25 June
| year = 2019
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/30271.html Cricinfo
}}

'''Robin Grey Kreyer''' {{postnominal|DSO}} (17 April 1910 – 16 October 1987) was an [[English people|English]] first-class [[cricket]]er and an officer in both the [[British Army]] and the [[British Indian Army]].

==Military career and cricket==
Kreyer was born at [[Multan]] in [[British India]] in April 1910, the eldest son of Colonel J. A. C. Kreyer, D.S.O., Indian Army. He was educated in England at [[Sherborne School]] and University College, Oxford.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13876/all_teams.html |title=Teams Robin Kreyer played for |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-06-25 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>The Sherbourne Register, 3rd edition</ref>

After completing his education in England, Kreyer was commissioned into the Supplementary Reserve of Officers in the [[British Army]] as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom & other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] with the [[Royal Tank Regiment|Royal Tank Corps]] in September 1930.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33644|date=16 September 1930|page=5689}}</ref> The following year he played [[Minor Counties of English and Welsh cricket|minor counties cricket]] for [[Oxfordshire County Cricket Club|Oxfordshire]], making a single appearance in the [[Minor Counties Championship]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13876/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html |title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Robin Kreyer |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-06-25 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He transferred to the [[British Indian Army]] in September 1932,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33860|date=2 September 1932|page=5624}}</ref> with promotion to the rank of the rank of [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] coming November 1933.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34039|date=6 April 1934|page=2224}}</ref> He was appointed to the 1st Battalion, 12th Frontier Force Regiment on 15 November 1933.<ref>July 1939 Indian Army List, page 507</ref> He was mentioned in dispatches ‘for distinguished services in connection with the operations in Waziristan, North West Frontier of India, 16 September to 15 December 1937’, while attached to the 5th Battalion, (Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides) 12th Frontier Force Regiment.<ref>London Gazette 16 August 1938</ref>

He played a single [[first-class cricket]] match for the [[Indian Army cricket team|British Indian Army cricket team]] against [[Northern India cricket team|Northern India]] in the 1934–35 [[Ranji Trophy]] at [[Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore#Cricket ground|Lahore]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13876/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Robin Kreyer |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-06-25 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed [[duck (cricket)|without scoring]] in the Army first-innings by [[Khadim Hussain (cricketer)|Khadim Hussain]], while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 2 runs by [[Ahmed Khan (cricketer)|Ahmed Khan]]. He took one wicket in the match, that of [[George Abell (civil servant)|George Abell]], taking match figures of 1 for 74.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/15/15253.html |title=Northern India v Army, 1934/35 Ranji Trophy |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-06-25 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

During the [[Second World War]], Kreyer resigned his commission with the British Indian Army in May 1940 and returned to England.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=35279|date=19 September 1941|page=5448}}</ref> He enlisted in the ranks of the British Army and held the appointment of [[Lance corporal#United Kingdom|lance corporal]], before being recommissioned as a lieutenant in February 1941 in the [[Royal Warwickshire Regiment]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=35112|date=18 March 1941|page=1648|supp=y}}</ref> By June 1944 he held the rank of [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]]. He took part in the [[Normandy Landings]], during which he was awarded the [[Distinguished Service Order]] in recognition of gallantry shown on 7 June, when the 2nd Royal Warwickshire's attacked [[Lébisey]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36679|date=29 August 1944|page=44044|supp=y}}</ref> He was wounded shortly after, but rejoined his unit in July 1944. He left the Warwickshire's in March 1945 to command a battalion in the [[Cheshire Regiment]]. He left the army as a Major after the war and went into farming.<ref>The Sherbourne Register, 5th edition</ref> He died in October 1987 at [[Barton Mills|Barton Mills, Suffolk]].

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=30271}}

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[[Category:Cheshire Regiment officers]]

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