Rea Leakey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rea Leakey

Date of Birth: 30-Dec-1915

Place of Birth: Nairobi, Kenya

Date of Death: 06-Oct-1999

Profession: military personnel

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Major General Arundell Rea Leakey, (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.