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Lieutenant HENRY ALAN LEEKE

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Warwickshire Regiment

"D" Coy. 9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 29 May 1915

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ALDERSHOT MILITARY CEMETERY

AH. 339.

United Kingdom

Famous Sportsmen Headstones, athletics: Lieut H A Leeke in Aldershot Military Cemetery, Hampshire, UK. Amateur Champion of England in the hammer throw and shot put, competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Leeke, of Cliffe House, Leamington, Warwickshire; husband of Catharine H. Leeke, of Southdown Cottage, Seaford, Sussex. A well known athlete in Field Events, at Cambridge.
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Buried or commemorated at

ALDERSHOT MILITARY CEMETERY
Hampshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 857
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