LEEMING, William Cedric
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Rank:
Troop Sergeant Major
Unit / Base:
46RM Commando
Prior Police Service:
??
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Number:
CH/X100711
Born:
Sunday, July 26, 1914
Birthplace:
Seaford, Liverpool, Lancashire
Died :
Sunday, June 11, 1944
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
29
Cemetery/Memorial:
Operations:
Troop Sergeant Major William Leeming died during operations at Rots and Le Hamel, France. Son of William Herbert and Alice Leeming, of Dublin, Irish Republic.
Sources
CWGC
Registers of Reports of Deaths - Naval Ratings / National Archives file ADM 104/133.
The Story of 46 Commando Royal Marines by Capt Johnson RM.
[Image] Bruce Lyster, nephew.
Notes
Marine Joe Blades of 'Y' Troop remembered TSM Leeming as "a big man quite easy to recognise from a distance. Someone you might call a gentle giant as he had never heard a bitter word from him. He had this very soft pleasant Irish accent. He was, like my mate Ken Newby, an ex policeman". (Taylor, The Waist High Cornfield, p.267).
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Photo of grave in Gallery:
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