72690 Captain Anthony John Julian CORY-WRIGHT, 181 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery: 26/06/1944

Personal Number: 72690
Rank: Captain
Name: Anthony John Julian CORY-WRIGHT
Unit: Hertfordshire Yeomanry & Royal Artillery

London Gazette : 17 August 1937
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34427/page/5268/data.pdf
TERRITORIAL ARMY.
86th (E. Anglian) (Herts. Yeo.) Fd. Bde—
Anthony John Julian CORY-WRIGHT (late Cadet Under-Offr., Eton Coll. Contgt., Jun. Div., O.T.C.) to be 2nd Lt. 18th Aug. 1937

 

Casualty
Captain CORY-WRIGHT, ANTHONY JOHN JULIAN
Service Number 72690
Died 26/06/1944
Aged 27
181 Field Regt. Royal Artillery
Son of Geoffrey and Felicity Cory-Wright; husband of Susan Esterel Cory-Wright, of Catfield, Norfolk.
His brother Jonathan Francis Cory-Wright also died on service.
INSCRIPTION: ALL OUR LOVE. VIRGINIA, JULIET, RICHARD AND SUSAN
Buried at TILLY-SUR-SEULLES WAR CEMETERY
Location: Calvados, France
Number of casualties: 1143
Cemetery/memorial reference: II. G. 11.
See cemetery plan

 

Guy, Thanks for the image.


See also:

• Capt Anthony John Julian Cory-Wright (1916-1944) -...
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• Person Page - Captain Anthony John Julian Cory-Wright b. 29 August 1916, d. 26 June 1944

His brothers:

• 312996 Jonathan Francis CORY-WRIGHT, Scots Guards
• 326833 (2701871) David Arthur CORY-WRIGHT, Scots Guards
• 89355 Michael CORY-WRIGHT, Royal Artillery

 

• Cory-Wright baronets - Wikipedia
• The present Baronet is the son of Captain Anthony John Julian Cory-Wright (1916–1944) and Susan Esterel Elwes. Captain Cory-Wright was the eldest son of Sir Geoffrey Cory-Wright, the 3rd Baronet Cory-Wright.[2] Captain Cory-Wright was killed in action on 26 June 1944, aged 27, at Saint-Manvieu, Normandy in France, when the present Baronet was only six months old.[3] His mother remarried, in 1949, to Lt.-Col. Jocelyn Eustace Gurney.[2]
• 50088 Jocelyn Eustace GURNEY, DSO, MC & Bar, Welsh Guards

 

Sword donated to exhibition at Norwich cathedral in tribute to WW2 soldier and artist’s life
03 November, 2016

Who was Captain Cory-Wright?
He was born during the Battle of the Somme and died during the Normandy campaign.

Born in 1916 and brought up in at a boarding school in Surrey, Captain Anthony John Julian Cory-Wright spent many summers at the family home in Brancaster.

He went to Eton before enrolling as an articled clerk with London-based auditors Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths&Co, which encouraged staff to join the Territorial Army, leading to his enlistment into the Hertfordshire Yeomanry.

During the war he avoided being posted abroad through luck – until 1944 when he took part in the Allied Forces’ invasion of German-occupied France. He was killed by shell as his team moved on foot towards St Mauvieu.