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VC346   Sir Edward Pemberton Leach

BORN   2 April 1847

DIED   27 April 1913  AGE   66

VC Won  17 March 1879   AGE   31

Place VC Won   Maidanah

War/Campaign  Second Afghan War, Afghanistan

Name   Sir Edward Pemberton Leach   No.    

VC Issue No.   346   Awards   VC   KCB   KCVO

Regiment   Corps of Royal Engineers

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Captain

Rank End Of Career   General

Place Of Birth   Londonderry, Co. Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Place Of Death   Cadenabbia, Lake Como, Italy

Buried/Location Ashes   Cimitero di Griante, via Indipendenza, above Cadenabbia, Lago di Como, Lombardy, Italy

Cremated

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   6 December 1879

VC Presented   9 December 1879, Queen Victoria, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Cimitero di Griante, via Indipendenza, above Cadenabbia, Lago di Como, Lombardy, Italy

P  Named on 'For Valour' board at the Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent

By The Way…

He died just one year after retirement, after forty six years in the military

VC Held By

Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent, England

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