George Norton Cory

General Sir George Norton Cory KBE, CB, DSO was a Canadian born and educated soldier who served with the British Army in India, South Africa and Canada and during the Boer War, World War I and World War II.

He was bornDecember 1874. He was the son of Charles D Cory, of Halifax, Nova Scotia. He entered military life when he enrolled at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario in 1891. Assigned student 323, he graduated in 1895.

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