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Military service
Age:
27
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
1st Canadian Mounted Rifles (Saskatchewan Regt.)
Death:
September 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of J. Hillyard Leech, K.C., and Ida L. Leech, of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Hart Leech
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Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of Hart Leech
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Letter
Last letter written by Lieutenant Hart Leech to his mother on 13 September 1916. He was killed two days later. -
Letter
Leech left law school in June 1915, enlisted as a private in the 61st Battalion, and received later received a commission in the 1st CMR. His letter was found on his body by a British officer who put it in his kit bag meaning to mail it but was himself wounded. He discovered it in 1928 and sent it to Leech¿s father. This is the letter from the British officer. It and Leech¿s letter were printed in The Manitoba Free Press 3 November 1928: -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hart Leech
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hart Leech
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hart Leech
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hart Leech
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hart Leech
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hart Leech
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hart Leech
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hart Leech
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 118 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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