GOC Malta and Libya Director-General of Fighting Vehicles 7th Armoured Brigade 5th Royal Tank Regiment
Battles/wars
Second World War
Operation Compass
Siege of Tobruk
Battle of Gazala
Operation Jupiter
Siege of Dunkirk
Awards
Companion of the Order of the Bath Distinguished Service Order Military Cross & Bar War Cross (Czechoslovakia)
Relations
Lieutenant General David Leakey (son) Nigel Leakey (brother)
Major-General Arundell Rea Leakey, CB, DSO, MC & Bar (30 December 1915 – 6 October 1999) was an officer in the British Army. He served in the Royal Tank Regiment in the Second World War, in North Africa, Italy and France. He later served in Korea, in the Arab Legion, and commanded a brigade in the British Army of the Rhine in the 1960s. He served as Director-General of Fighting Vehicles and finally as the commander of British troops in Malta and Libya. He retired in 1966, and became Director of the Wolfson Foundation. An autobiography, Leakey's Luck, was published in 1999.
His father Gray Leakey and step-mother Mary were murdered by the Mau Mau in Kenya in 1954. His older brother Nigel Leakey was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross in the Second World War, and a cousin Joshua Leakey was awarded the Victoria Cross in 2015. One of his sons is Lieutenant General David Leakey.
Major-General Arundell ReaLeakey, CB, DSO, MC & Bar (30 December 1915 – 6 October 1999) was an officer in the British Army. He served in the Royal Tank...
son of Harry Leakey and cousin of Nigel and ReaLeakey Louise Leakey (born 1972), paleontologist; daughter of Meave and Richard Leakey, married to Prince...
Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA (née Nicol, 6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul...
Arundell Leakey, clergyman in England. He was a cousin of archaeologists Louis Leakey and Richard Leakey. Leakey's younger brother ReaLeakey served in...
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972) was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating...
until February 2018. Leakey is the son of Major General ReaLeakey and nephew of Victoria Cross recipient Nigel Leakey. Leakey was educated at Sherborne...
British Army officer, is the son of Nigel's brother Major General ReaLeakey. Leakey joined the British Army in 2007 and was subsequently posted to the...
Erskine Frere Leakey FRS (19 December 1944 – 2 January 2022) was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician. Leakey held a number of...
Meave G. Leakey (born Meave Epps; 28 July 1942) is a British palaeoanthropologist. She works at Stony Brook University and is co-ordinator of Plio-Pleistocene...
Princess Louise de Merode (née Leakey, born 21 March 1972) is a Kenyan paleontologist and anthropologist. She conducts research and field work on human...
Jonathan Leakey, and half-brother to Colin Leakey. His children by his second wife, Valerie Fraser Leakey, are Lara Fraser Leakey, Kyela Fraser Leakey, and...
younger brother ReaLeakey survived service in the Second World War, and became a major-general in the British Army. His sister Agnes Leakey (later Agnes...
Henrietta Wilfrida "Frida" Leakey (née Avern; 1902 – 19 August 1993), also known as H. Wilfrida Leakey, was a British teacher who discovered a gorge that...
authority on beans. Colin Leakey was the son of Louis Leakey (1903–1972), the pioneering paleoanthropologist, and Frida (Avern) Leakey, of Newnham College,...
James Leakey (1775–1865) was an English landscape and portrait artist. Born on 20 September 1775 in Exeter, Devon, he was the son of John Leakey, who was...
Caroline Woolmer Leakey (8 March 1827 – 12 July 1881) was an English writer, whose poetry and only novel (The Broad Arrow, published using the pen name...
and HQ Tripolitania Area in Libya.[page needed] Later, Major General ReaLeakey commanded HQ Malta and Libya in 1967-68. Malta Command was largely wound...
Gavin, CBE (52617), late Corps of Royal Engineers. Major-General Arundell ReaLeakey, DSO, MC (67210), late Royal Armoured Corps. Major-General Henry Lowther...
advocating for the creation of the International Court of Justice. Born: ReaLeakey, British army officer, commander of the 5th Royal Tank Regiment during...
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