Background
Born the son of Colonel Charles Seymour Corkran and educated at Eton College, Corkran was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in March 1893.
Born the son of Colonel Charles Seymour Corkran and educated at Eton College, Corkran was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in March 1893.
Eton College.
He was promoted to lieutenant on 12 May 1897, and served on the Nile Expedition in 1898. He was appointed adjutant of the 2nd battalion of his regiment on 22 October 1899, was promoted to captain on 30 November 1899, and left with his regiment for South Africa to serve in the Second Boer War in March 1900. He also served in World War I and, as commanding officer of a battalion of the Grenadier Guards, took his men to France in 1914.
After the war he became commanding officer of the Grenadier Guards Regiment and then went on to be commandant of the Senior Officers" School.
He was appointed commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst in 1923 and then became Major-General commanding the Brigade of Guards and general officer commanding London District in 1928. He retired in 1932. In retirement he became Serjeant at Arms of the British House of Lords.
He died in a shooting accident.