72690 Anthony John Julian CORY-WRIGHT, 181 Field Regiment Royal Artillery

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

 

Guy, Thanks for the image.

Capt Anthony John Julian Cory-Wright (1916-1944) -...



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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