Date of birth:

1920

Date of death:

May 1949

Service number:

85981

Nationality:

British (1801-present, Kingdom)

Richard Corser was educated at Millmead, Shrewsbury and Malvern College where he joined the O.T.C.. On leaving school he was articled to the family firm of Solicitors in Shrewsbury, and prior to the outbreak of war he joined the Shropshire Territorials. When called up he was commissioned into the Shropshire R.H.A. and served with the British Expeditionary Force in France, North Africa, Italy and Germany. He attained the rank of Captain while serving with the British Army of the Rhine and in late 1945 contracted an illness which caused him to be invalided home. He never fully recovered and died in May 1949; his ashes were interred in the family grave at Bourton-on-the-Water,
Gloucestershire.

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Temporary Captain

Unit:

51st Medium Regiment R.A., Headquarters Royal Artillery, Fifth Army, British Army

Awarded on:

April 19th, 1945

Recommendation:
"This officer has throughout the campaign distinguished himself by his courage and tenacity in his duties with forward troops and in gun areas. He has done duty as forward observation officer in all the major battles of the Fifth Army up to May and was again forward observation officer during the Cassino battle, where he accompanied the Canadian infantry in the breaking of the Hitler line.
On more than one occasion he has been responsible for the breaking up of enemy counter-attacks and his manner in handling the fire of the
regiment is outstanding in its speed and accuracy. Under fire he invariably displays great coolness and courage which is of the utmost value to his men and he is in all branches of his activities a very
out standing troop commander."

WO 373/11/231
LG 37039/2073

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

With "8th ARMY" clasp.

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Temporary Captain

Unit:

Royal Regiment of Artillery

Awarded on:

January 11th, 1945

Rank:

Captain

Awarded on:

November 3rd, 1950

• - The London Gazette Publication date:9 January 1945 Supplement:36886Page:316
  - The London Gazette Publication date:17 April 1945 Issue:37039Page:2073
  - The London Gazette Publication date:9 November 1945 Supplement:37344Page:5518
  - The London Gazette Publication date:21 June 1949 Supplement:38644Page:3049
  - The London Gazette Publication date:30 September 1949 Supplement:38727Page:4727
  - The London Gazette Publication date:3 November 1950 Supplement:39058Page:5485
  - Morton and Eden