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VC1181    Nigel Gray Leakey

Name   Nigel Gray Leakey   No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   1181   Awards   VC   

Regiment   King's African Rifles, 1st/6th Battalion

Later   

Now   Disbanded

Rank VC Won    Sergeant

Rank End Of Career   Sergeant

Place Of Birth   Kiganjo, Kenya, Africa

Place Of Death   Near Billate River, Colito, Abyssinia (now Ethiopia)

Buried/Location Ashes   Location unknown, Ethiopia

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone        Plot/Grave no.  

Gazetted    15 November 1945

VC Presented   9 July 1946, King George VI, Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

Named on East African Memorial (Column 37, 2nd West), Nairobi War Cemetery, Ngong Road, Nairobi, Kenya

P  Named on War Memorial, Bromsgrove School Chapel, Worcester Road, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire

P  Picture and Citation, Bromsgrove School Library, Worcester Road, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire

P  Named on Memorial Gates, Constitution Hill, Green Park, London


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BORN    1 January 1913

DIED   19 May 1941   AGE   28

VC Won   19 May 1941    AGE    28

Place VC Won   Colito, Abyssinia (now Ethiopia)

War/Campaign   Second World War

Second World War