Robin Kreyer

Robin Grey Kreyer (17 April 1910 – 16 October 1987) was an English first-class cricketer 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. He was educated in England at Sherborne School. After completing his education in England, Kreyer enlisted in the British Army as a second lieutenant with the Royal Tank Corps in September 1930. The following year he played minor counties cricket for Oxfordshire, making a single appearance in the Minor Counties Championship. He transferred to the British Indian Army in September 1932, with promotion to the rank of the rank of lieutenant coming November 1933. He played a single first-class cricket match for the British Indian Army cricket team against Northern India in the 1934–35 Ranji Trophy at Lahore. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed without scoring in the Army first-innings by Khadim Hussain, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 2 runs by Ahmed Khan. He took one wicket in the match, that of George Abell, taking match figures of 1 for 74.

During the Second World War, Kreyer resigned his commission with the British Indian Army in May 1940 and returned to England to join the war effort. He joined the Royal Warwickshire Regiment as a lance corporal, before being recommissioned as a lieutenant in February 1941. By June 1944 he held the rank of 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. 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 died in October 1987 at Barton Mills, Suffolk.