LECKIE John Major

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Surname: LECKIE;

Forename(s): John;

Initials: J;

Rank: Major;

Born in: Edinburgh;

Previous Regiment: S Staffs Regt;

Date of transfer to MGC: 07-Aug-1916;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 167 Coy;

Other MGC Unit Served (1): 169 Coy;

Other MGC Unit Served (2): 56 Bn;

How killed: DOW;

Where: France;

When killed: 29-Aug-1918;

Awarded: MC, MID;

Other Data: Watsonians War Record - Portrait
The Sphere - Portrait - GS Archive
Commanded 167 Coy in Oct 1917
War Diary 56 Bn 29/8/1918 "Officer Cmdg "C" Coy, Major J Leckie, whilst observing from an Observation Post with 2/Lt Chalkley and a runner was mortally wounded by a direct hit from an enemy shell on the ridge behind Croisselles………."

University of Edinburgh
Narrative George Watson's College; Athletics. Student of Arts and Science, 1913-15. OTC Engineers, December 1914 to July 1915. ioth South Staffordshire Regiment, 2nd Lieutenant July 1915. Machine-Gun Corps, 56th Battalion., January 1916; Lieutenant November 1916; Captain February 1918; Major March 1918. France July 1916 with 56th Division. The Somme, Arras, third Battle of Ypres, and first Cambrai. M.C. June 1918. Dispatches May 1917. Wounded four times. Died of wounds received near Bullecourt on 29th August 1918.

medals offered Noonans Apr 2024:
M.C. London Gazette, 3 June 1918.
M.I.D. London Gazette, 25 May 1917.
John Leckie was born in Edinburgh on 10 June 1891. He attended George
Watson's College, Edinburgh, from 1897 to 1908, afterwards attending
Edinburgh University, where, as a member of Edinburgh University Officer
Training Corps, he was commissioned into the South Staffordshire Regiment
in June 1915, for service during the Great War. Transferring into the Machine
Gun Corps, he served on the Western Front from 1 July 1916 and was
attached to the 56th Division, with whom he fought on the Somme, at Arras
and Cambrai, and was four times wounded. Advanced Major, he was further
wounded before Bullecourt and died of wounds on 29 August 1918. He is
buried in Bac-Du-Sud British Cemetery, Bailleulval, France.;

Other Notes: LECKIE, Major, JOHN, MC, "C" Coy. 56th Bn. Machine Gun Corps (Inf). Died of wounds 29th August 1918. Age 27. Son of Mrs. and the late Mr. John Leckie, of Edinburgh. III. C. 26. Bac-du-Sud British Cemetery, Bailleulval - Pas De Calais, France.
MC: LG 3/6/1918 (A/Capt) attd MGC
MID: LG 22/5/1917 (dated 9/4/1917) France;

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