Notes
Franz Herbert Koretz was born at Vienna on 9 October 1920, the only son of Andula (née Pollack) and Paul Koretz, a lawyer working for MGM. He was educated at Ellesmere College, in Shropshire, until 1938, where he was Captain of Tennis and a member of the ‘Seven Club’.
Franz Koretz entered Worcester College on 7 October 1938 and passed his first year examinations in Law in June 1939, followed by a special ‘war group’ examination in Law in March 1940. He was unable to return to the College for Trinity Term 1940 as he was interned in the UK for four months in 1940, and only released on the condition he would leave the country for the USA. Koretz tried to enlist in the British Army but his request was refused as an alien from an enemy country. On 28 October 1940 he boarded the SS Cameronia and travelled to New York. He enlisted as a Private in the United States Army on 10 December 1943 and served with the 60th Infantry Regiment .
Private Franz Koretz was killed in action in France on 11 August 1944, aged 23.
Franz Koretz is buried in Brittany American Cemetery in France, and commemorated on the war memorial at Worcester College, Oxford.