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
See also, his brothers: 312996 Jonathan Francis CORY-WRIGHT, Scots Guards 326833 (2701871) David Arthur CORY-WRIGHT, Scots Guards 89355 Michael CORY-WRIGHT, Royal Artillery
2nd Lt. A.J.J. CORY-WRIGHT 86th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment Royal Artillery T.A. September 1939
Guy, Thanks for the image. Capt Anthony John Julian Cory-Wright (1916-1944) -... Person Page Captain Anthony John Julian Cory-Wright b. 29 August 1916, d. 26 June 1944
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. 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
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