Leech | Egbert | 459 | | Attested: Mar 1902. Source: CMP 28 | Cape Police |
Leech | Egbert | 15159 | Trooper | Source: QSA Medal Rolls | 74th Company, 8th Btn, IY |
Leech | F | 5826 | Private | Prisoner. Helvetia, 29 December 1900
1st Battalion. Released
Source: South African Field Force Casualty Roll | (King's) Liverpool Regiment |
Leech | F | | | 5th Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Manchester Regiment |
Leech | F | | | 1st Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | (King's) Liverpool Regiment |
Leech | Frank | | Gunner | BSACM Matabeleland 1893 (1) Rhodesia 1896. 1896: Tpr. Gwelo Vols. Frank Leech, who was born in Durban in April 1863, served as a Gunner in the Victoria Column during the 1893 Rebellion and as a Trooper under Captain H. Ware in the Gwelo Volunteer Corps in the 1896 Rebellion, his claim for the latter clasp also stating that he was onetime attached to the Salisbury Horse and Salisbury Scouts. Official records also verify that he claimed £453 from the Compensation Board at Bulawayo for losses incurred during the 1896 Rebellion, his property at Leechdale in the Shangani District being destroyed by the Matabele, together with farming equipment, livestock and personal possessions. In the previous year, however, as a gold prospector, he had fared rather better, taking a founding share in the infamous Ancient Ruins Limited, a company established with a grant from the British South Africa Company after the discovery of major hoards of ancient gold jewellery at Mambo Ruins, south of the Zambesi, on land owned by the Hon. Maurice Gifford - accompanying research includes an informative letter written be a fellow-founder, W. G. Neal, in late September 1895, in which he states 'Jameson the Administrator thanked us and congratulated us and gave us the concession over all ruins south of the Zambesi, and Mr. Rhodes approved of the affair.’ And while Leech may have sustained considerable loss as a result of the 1896 Rebellion, he clearly made up any lost ground with subsequent gold prospecting in the Belgian Congo, where he died in July 1914, leaving £11,198 to his nieces and nephews. BSACM Matabeleland 1893, 1 clasp, Rhodesia 1896 (Gunr. F. Leech, Victoria Column) DNW June 2009 £380.
Source: BSACM rolls | Victoria Column |
Leech | Frank | 651 | Trooper (Scout) | 1st Battalion
Source: QSA Medal Rolls | Scottish Horse |
Leech | Frank | 651 | Scout | Served 13 Feb 01 to 19 Aug 01. Discharged Completion of Service PMB, Second Number 19433
Source: Nominal roll in WO127 | Scottish Horse |
Leech | Frederick William | 489 | Sergeant | Source: OZ-Boer database | South Australia, 5th Imperial Contingent |
Leech | G | 4292 | L Corporal | 1st Btn. Killed at Ladysmith. 6 Jan 1900.
Source: Natal Field Force Casualty Roll, page 153 line 1 | Manchester Regiment |
Leech | G F | | Private | CGHGSM (2) Basutoland Transkei
Source: Roll of the CGHGSM | Graaff Reinet Rovers |
Leech | G H | | | 1st Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | (King's) Liverpool Regiment |
Leech | George Frank | | Orderly | Source: Nominal roll in WO127 | Imperial Hospital Corps |
Leech | H | | | 2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | East Yorkshire Regiment |
Leech | H G | | | Source: QSA and KSA rolls | Natal Police |
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