Henry Leach (British Army officer)

Brigadier-General Sir
Henry Edmund Burleigh Leach
CB CMG CVO
Born 18 July 1780
Died 16 August 1936
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Rank Brigadier-General
Battles/wars Second Boer War
First World War

Brigadier-General Henry Edmund Burleigh Leach CB CMG CVO (18 July 187016 August 1936) was a British Army officer.

Early life and career

The son of Major-General Sir Edmund Leach of Corston House, Pembrokeshire, he was educated at Uppingham School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he won the Sword of Honour. In 1887 he was commissioned into the Northumberland Fusiliers.[1]

He served with distinction in the Second Boer War and was promoted Captain in 1900 and Major in 1904. He served as Military Secretary to the Governor of Gibraltar from 1905 to 1910. In 1908 he transferred to the South Wales Borderers and in 1912 he took command of the 2nd Battalion, being promoted Lieutenant-Colonel the following year.

First World War

He took the battalion to France on 6 August 1914 following the outbreak of the First World War. On 14 October 1914 he was badly wounded at the Battle of Gheluvelt and spent the rest of the war at the Adjutant-General's Department at the War Office in London. He was appointed an Assistant Adjutant-General in 1916 and Deputy Director of Personal Services, with the rank of Brigadier-General, in 1917. He retired in 1920.

Leach was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1915, Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1919, and Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 1920 New Year Honours[2] for his organisation of the 1919 Peace March through London.

Footnotes

  1. The London Gazette: no. 26157. p. 2366. 1 May 1891. Retrieved 24 October 2010.
  2. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 31712. p. 6. 30 December 1919.

References

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