Personal Number: 300818 Army Number: 2623774 Rank: Lieutenant Name: Honourable John Polson Corbett Unit: 2 Grenadier Guards London Gazette: 24 December 1943 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36298/supplement/5583/data.pdf The undermentioned Cadets to be 2nd Lts. 2ist Nov. 1943:— FOOT GUARDS. Gren. G'ds. 2623774 Hon. John *Dobson CORBETT (300818). London Gazette : 28 January 1944 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36350/supplement/529/data.pdf FOOT GUARDS. Gren. G'ds. * The Christian names of 2nd Lt. Hon. John Polson CORBETT (300818) are as now described and not as stated in London Gazette (Supplement) dated 24th Dec. 1943.
Casualty Details | CWGC LIEUTENANT The Hon. JOHN POLSON CORBETT Service Number: 300818 Regiment & Unit/Ship: Grenadier Guards, 2nd Bn. Date of Death: Died 18 July 1944 Age 19 years old Commemorated at BAYEUX MEMORIAL Memorial Reference: Panel 12, Column 2. Location: France Additional Info: Son of Lt.-Col. Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan, M.C., T.D., D.L. (formerly of The Royal Scots Fusiliers), and Lady Rowallan, of Rowallan, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.
See also Person Page His father 25560 Thomas Godfrey Polson CORBETT, KT, KBE, MC, TD, (Grenadier Guards WW1), Royal Scots Fusiliers His brothers 89841 Arthur Cameron CORBETT, MiD, Ayrshire Yeomanry & Royal Artillery 207644 Thomas Anthony CORBETT, MC, MiD, 1 Grenadier Guards