UK Foreign and Overseas Registers for birth

His body was never found.

CWGC - Nigel Gray Leakey VC, Serjeant LF/145, 1/6th Bn., KAR, who died on Monday, 19th May 1941. Age 28. East Africa Memorial, Kenya, Column 37.

VC Citation - The citation in the London Gazette of 15th November, 1945, gives the following particulars: On 19th May,1941, at Colito, Abyssinia, two companies of the 1/6th The King's African Rifles crossed the Billate River and established a precarious bridgehead. The enemy launched a surprise counter-attack with tanks. With complete disregard for his own safety and in the face of withering fire, Serjeant Leakey leaped on top of a tank coming from behind the British positions, wrenched open the turret and shot the crew except the driver, whom he ordered to drive to cover. He then charged across open ground under fire and with three of the African troops stalked the other tanks. He succeeded in jumping on to the third tank, and opened the turret and killed one of the crew before being shot off by the fourth tank. His determination and his initiative were responsible for breaking up the Italian tank attack, and for saving a most critical situation. The superb courage and magnificent fighting spirit which he displayed, facing almost certain death, was an incentive to his comrades, who fought on with inspiration after witnessing his gallantry and succeeded in retaining their positions in the face of great odds.

See article on him in Old Africa magazine Apr/May 2019

One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 145)