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Name: LEEKE, Ralph Henry (Major)
Nee: son of Col. Ralph Leeke of Aston Hall, Newport, Shropshire
Birth Date: 8.12.1883 Aston Hall, Shropshire
Death Date: 5.11.1915 Mzima, Taveta, blackwater fever
First Date: 1911
Profession: Military, King's African Rifles
Book Reference: Sitrep 6, Moyse, CWGC, Gazette, A. Allen, Eton, Webb
War Service: Rifle Brigade & 4 KAR
School: Eton 1897-1901 and RMC Sandhurst
General Information:
Sitrep 6 - Africa General Service Medal 1902-56 - East Africa 1914 - Awarded for a punitive expedition - 1914 - under Capt. R.H. Leeke (RB), Lt. S.W.H. Silver (Suffolks) and Lt. H.A. Lilley (Yorks), against the Turkana Tribe in the NFD and Uganda borders west of Lake Rudolf. Recipients were 4 KAR.
CWGC - Taveta War Cemetery - Major Ralph Henry Leeke, Rifle Brigade attd. 4th King's African Rifles. 5th November 1915. Age 31. Son of Col. And the Hon. Mrs Ralph Leeke, of Aston, Newport, Salop. Born at Aston Hall, Salop. III.B.2
Moyse - 1911 - The Lango Detachment and 1912 - operations with the Northern Garrison