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VC81   Peter Leitch

BORN   1820

DIED   6 December 1892  AGE   72

VC Won  18 June 1855  AGE  35

Place VC Won  Sebastopol, Crimea

War/Campaign  Crimean War

Name   Peter Leitch  No.   

VC Issue No.   81   Awards   VC    

Regiment   Corps of Royal Engineers

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Colour-Sergeant

Rank End Of Career   Colour-Sergeant

Place Of Birth   Orwell, Kinross, Fife, Scotland

Place Of Death   Fulham, London, England

Buried/Location Ashes  Margravine Road Cemetery, Margravine Road, Hammersmith, London, England

Cremated

Date Buried/Cremated   10 December 1892

Headstone   Unmarked grave   Plot/Grave no.   Grave 7 H 18

Gazetted   2 June 1858

VC Presented   02 November 1858, Lieutenant-General Sir J Outram, Natal, South Africa

Memorials

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

P  Leitch Row, off Admiralty Terrace, Chatham, Kent

By The Way…

Its unknown if the grave was unmarked, destroyed by bombing in 1940 or cleared on 1950’s

VC Held By

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

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Whilst carrying out an attack on the Redan, he climbed a ladder to the top of the parapet, then threw down gabions to bridge the ditch, under heavy fire until badly wounded