Thomas Scott Cree DSC (1 May 1914[1][2] – 28 March 1990[3]) was an Australian rower who competed for Great Britain at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
When Tom was three years old, his father Captain Robert Scott Cree, 1st/8th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), died of wounds sustained in the Third Battle of Gaza on 14 November 1917.
Later in the year Cree partnered Burnford in the coxless pair representing Great Britain at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, where they reached the semi-final stage.
[9] He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for conduct in naval anti-submarine operations in the Mediterranean Sea in January 1941,[10][11] which was presented in November 1943.
[12] In February 1943, Lieutenant Cree married Dorothy Jean Stewart Fraser in the Toorak Presbyterian Church.