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CORY
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Edmund
Quatermain |
Second
Lieutenant, 3rd Reserve Cavalry Regiment. Died from illness,
out of service, Friday 9 August 1918. Aged 28. Born 10 December
1889 at Terrington St. John, Kings Lynn, Norfolk. Son of Rev. Robert
Frederick Cory, Rector of Higham Gobion, Bedfordshire, and Eliza
Mary Cory. In the 1891 census he was aged 1, born Terrington St.
John, Norfolk, son of Robert Frederick and Eliza Mary Cory, resident
Vicarage, Church Field, Terrington St John, Wisbech, Norfolk. Admitted
to County Agricultural Institute, Ridgmont, October 1909, address
given as Higham Gobion, Hitchin, Hertfordshire. He also served at
Gallipoli. Wounded and issued with a Silver War badge 382605 28
May 1918 while in Pinewood Sanatorium, Wokingham, Berkshire. Address
for Disability Retired Pay given as Revd. Robert Frederick Cory
(father), of The Rectory, Higham Gobion, Hitchin. Buried near South-East
corner of Church in HIGHAM GOBION (ST. MARGARET) CHURCHYARD, Bedfordshire.
Extract
from Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard, Saturday 12 September 1914,
page 5:
RECRUITING
AT BOURTON.
On Wednesday afternoon 22 recruits for Lord Kitchener's Army left
Bourton-on-the Water for Worcester barracks. Colour-Sergeant Moss
had been giving them an hour's drill on Monday and Tuesday evenings,
and the result in short a time has been a surprise to the village
and neighbourhood. At 10.30 a.m. Major-General Willoughby addressed
them, and congratulated them on their smartness. They were photographed
by Mr. A. Collett, and afterwards presented with cigarettes by
Mr. T. Powell. They then marched to the station and had a heary
[sic s/b hearty] send-off. The names of the recruits are: Frank
Pulham, Frank Sadler, Alfred H. Seymour, Edmund Q. Cory, Harold
E. A. E. Turner (Stow). Frederick N. C. East, Victor R. Topp (Guiting),
Alfred E. Green, Edward J. Buckingham, Benjamin G. Pettitt, Cecil
H. Cooper, Herbert P. Collett, John E. Dormer, George J. Harris
(Bourton), Frederick J. Vallender, Francis J. Mills, Arthur Cyphus,
Garnet Morris, Walter D. Souls, Albert Souls, Francis H. Bartlett,
George William Pratley (Great Rissington).
From
Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, Part 4,
Page 38:
CORY,
EDMUND QUARTERMAIN, Lieut., 3rd (Reserve) Regt. Cavalry
(Hussars), eldest s. of the Rev. Robert Frederick Cory,
of Higham Gobion Rectory, Hitchin, Rector of Higham Gobion, and
Vicar of Hexton, by his wife, Eliza Mary, dau. of J. H. Spokes,
J.P.; b. King's Lynn, co. Norfolk, 10 Dec. 1889; educ.
King's School, Ely, Cambridge; was a Farmer; enlisted in the 19th
Hussars in Aug. 1914; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary
Force at Gallipoli from July to Dec. 1915, being attached to the
7th Battn. The Gloucestershire Regt.; proceeded to France in July,
1916. attached to the 3rd Battu. The Gloucestershire Regt.; gazetted
2nd Lieut. 21 Dec. 1916, 3rd (Reserve) Cavalry; promoted Lieut.
Feb. 1918, and died at Higham Gobion Rectory, co. Bedford, 9 Aug.
1918, from illness contracted while on active service. Buried
in the Higham Gobion Churchyard, co. Bedford; unm.
Wall
Plaque inscription:
IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
EDMUND Q CORY
LIEUT. 3RD CAV. RES.
SERVED AT GALLIPOLI, AND
IN FRANCE
DIED AUGUST 9TH 1918
AGED 28 YEARS
R.I.P.
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