Edward Pemberton Leach
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General Sir Edward Pemberton Leach Template:Postnominals (2 April 1847 – 27 April 1913) was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Early life
Leach was born in County Londonderry, Ireland on 2 April 1847. He was educated at Highgate School in England.
Military career
Leach was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1866.[1]
He was 31 years old, and a captain in the Corps of Royal Engineers, British Army and with Bengal Sappers and Miners (British Indian Army) during the Second Anglo-Afghan War when the following deed took place on 17 March 1879 near Maidanah, Afghanistan for which he was awarded the VC.[2] Template:Quote
Later life
After this incident promotion followed and he was made Commander of 24 Field Company during the Suakin Expedition in 1885.[1] He was promoted to Major-General on 1 October 1897. From April 1900 he was General Officer Commanding Belfast in which capacity he founded the Ballykinlar training camp.[1] He was appointed General Officer Commanding the 9th Division within Third Army Corps in Ireland on 1 April 1902,[3] and served until 1905.[4] Later that year, he was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Scottish Command, in succession to Lieutenant General Sir Charles Tucker, where he served from 1905.[5] to 1909 before he retired in 1912.[1]
Leach died in Cadenabbia, Lake Como, Italy on 27 April 1913.[6] His younger daughter Elsie Leach became a distinguished ornithologist.
The medal
His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Engineers Museum, Chatham, England.
Notes
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- ↑ a b c d Royal Engineers Museum Template:Webarchive
- ↑ The Royal Engineers Museum – Victoria Crosses held by the Royal Engineers Museum Template:Webarchive
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- ↑ Who's Who 1914 has his date of death as 26 April
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References
Listed in order of publication year
- The Register of the Victoria Cross (1981, 1988 and 1997)
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- Ireland's VCs Template:ISBN (Dept of Economic Development 1995)
- The Sapper VCs (Gerald Napier, 1998)
- Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999)
- Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross (Richard Doherty & David Truesdale, 2000)
External links
- Royal Engineers Museum Sappers VCs
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- 1847 births
- 1913 deaths
- 19th-century Irish people
- Irish officers in the British Army
- Military personnel from County Londonderry
- People educated at Highgate School
- British Army generals
- Irish recipients of the Victoria Cross
- Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
- Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
- Bengal Sappers and Miners personnel
- Royal Engineers officers
- Second Anglo-Afghan War recipients of the Victoria Cross
- British Army personnel of the Mahdist War
- British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross
- British military personnel of the Lushai Expedition