312996 (2701870) Lieutenant Jonathan Francis CORY-WRIGHT, Scots Guards: 09/04/1945

Army Number: 2701870
Personal Number: 312996
Rank: Lieutenant
Name: Jonathan Francis CORY-WRIGHT
Unit: Scots Guards


London Gazette : 19 May 1944
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36519/supplement/2278/data.pdf
The undermentioned Cadets to be 2nd Lts.: —
24th Mar. 1944:—
FOOT GUARDS.
S. G'ds
2701870 Jonathan Francis CORY-WRIGHT (312996)

 

Casualty
Lieutenant CORY-WRIGHT, JONATHAN FRANCIS
Service Number 312996
Died 09/04/1945
Aged 20
Scots Guards
Son of Geoffrey and Felicity Cory-Wright, of Brancaster, Kings Lynn, Norfolk.
His brother Anthony John Julian Cory-Wright also died on service.
Buried at RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY
Location: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Number of casualties: 3183
Cemetery/memorial reference: 12. J. 9.
See cemetery plan

 

J.F. Cory-Wright Eton College Cricket XI (top row 3rd from right)

The Tatler & Bystander 24th June 1942

 

Thanks Guy.

See also:

• Lieutenant Jonathan Francis Cory-Wright...
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• Person Page - Lieutenant Jonathan Francis Cory-Wright, b. 19 March 1925, d. 9 April 1945

His brothers:

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

 

From Guards - Germany Cemeteries list

Scots Guards