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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