Frank Leek

Jerusalem War Cemetery, Palestine.

Frank Leek

Private No. 291498, (previously 4290)

1st/7th Battalion Cheshire Regiment.

Killed in action in Palestine 17 December 1917. Age 23

Buried in Jerusalem War Cemetery, Palestine. M. 22. Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)

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Born in Malpas in 1894 (baptised 17th July 1898)

Third son of Thomas and Fanny Jane Leek of Cuddington, Malpas.

The May 1917 Malpas Deanery Magazine records Frank as being in hospital in Egypt with injuries to both hands.