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Leakey, and his first wife, Elizabeth. ... in 1926, when
Elizabeth died ... She married a South African colleague, Bremer Hofmeyr, in 1946. ... in ... 1954 ... Mau Mau fighters ... attacked her father's farm, killed her stepmother and abducted her father. ... buried alive, in a shallow grave on Mount Kenya. ... she lost her eldest brother, Nigel Leakey, in 1941 at Colito, where he won the Victoria Cross. Three years after Bremer's death, in 1993, their elder son, Murray, was killed in a car accident in Johannesburg.
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and shot all the crew except the driver, whom he forced to drive the tank to cover. Along with three others, he tried to repeat this with another tank, but just as he opened the turret, he was killed. The confusion and loss of armour Leakey caused was critical to the
Italian defeat in the battle.
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Hubbard Woolmer was born on 20 December 1793. ... On 28 August 1815 she married the artist James Leakey (1775-1865) at St. Sidwell's Church, Exeter (2). They had eleven children. ... Caroline Woolmer Leakey
222:, Kenya to English parents. Leakey's mother Elizabeth died in 1926. His father, Arundell Gray Leakey, was the son of Reverend John Arundell Leakey, clergyman in England. He was a cousin of archaeologists
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247:Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
1756:6 Myths about the ‘Mau Mau’ War
16:Recipient of the Victoria Cross
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1657:Lean, Mary (26 January 2007).
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1875:. BBC News. 26 February 2015.
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1737:"No. 27839"
1598:(1827-1881)
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73:19 May 1941
1909:Categories
1893:31 January
1861:CWGC entry
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214:Early life
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164:Relations
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