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Colonel Sir Michael McCorkell KCVO OBE TD JP DL (3 May 1925 – 13 November 2006) was an Ulster soldier and British public servant, emulating the high level of British public service of successive generations of the McCorkell family, being Lord Lieutenant of County Londonderry for 25 years.〔()〕 His uncle, Sir Dudley McCorkell, had also been Lord Lieutenant of County Londonderry. McCorkell was the son of Capt. B.F. McCorkell, of Templeard, Culmore, County Londonderry. He was born in Buncrana, Inishowen, County Donegal in 1925 and was educated at Rockport School in Holywood, County Down, and at Aldenham School. The outbreak of World War II and the subsequent curtailment of travel caused him to finish his education at Campbell College. ==Military career== During the war, he joined the Royal Artillery as a gunner before being selected for a commission and going to the Royal Armoured Corps (RAC) Officer Cadet Training Unit (OCTU) at Sandhurst. The Royal Military College had closed on the outbreak of war. Commissioned in the RAC he served with the 16th/5th Lancers, choosing that regiment because of its Irish heritage; the 5th had been the Royal Irish Lancers until 1922. In December 1944, he joined the regiment in the Apennine mountains where it was serving in an infantry role. As he was only 19 his father had had to sign a certificate to allow him to be posted overseas. Commanding a tank troop, he fought in the final phase of the Italian campaign with 6th Armoured Division which broke through the Argenta Gap and broke the German line in the plain of the Po. His unit was among the first into Austria where the British Army had to deal with a complex array of problems that would have taxed Solomon. As Austria became more settled, life for a soldier eased. These were heady times for a young soldier. Michael shot chamois on Hermann Göring's mountain estate in Austria (the heads of the chamois were fine ones because the Luftwaffe had dropped hay to the beasts on the hill) and he kept the Mess in trout with regular forays to the Alpine streams and lakes; and cavalrymen were in their element here, with the pick of the liberated Austrian and German horse flesh at the allies’ disposal. McCorkell was involved in two enormous tattoos at the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna and at the Olympiastadion (Olympic Stadium) in Berlin, where he and others performed cavalry trick rides. He was a Major in the Territorial Army and North Irish Horse (1951). His long involvement with the North Irish Horse, which he joined on the formation of the TA in Northern Ireland in 1947, had already seen him commanding it in the 1960s and, without hesitation, he became T & AVR Colonel, Northern Ireland, in 1971-1974, Aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II (1972),Aide-de-camp to Governor of Northern Ireland (1956-1968), Brevet Colonel (1974), Honorary Colonel of the North Irish Horse in 1975 and President of the T & AVR, Northern Ireland in 1977. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael McCorkell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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