BORN HULL 1892. . SON OF ARTHUR LEEDHAM (1863-1951) & MARTHA SOPHIA MARKHAM (1859-1913), of 10 BAINTON TERRACE, GILLETT STREET, HULL. SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. WORKED AS A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE CLEANER.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE PIONEERS. LEFT FOR THE DARDANELLES, ON 14/07/1915. KILLED IN ACTION, AT GALLIPOLI, ON 09/08/1915, AGED 23. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE HELLES MEMORIAL AT GALLIPOLI. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, ARTHUR.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED AS KILLED ON THE GILLETT STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 30 August 1916)
HIS BROTHERS, CYRIL LEEDHAM, SERVED IN THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, AND ALBERT LEEDHAM, SERVED IN THE 90TH TRAINING BATTALION.
First name:
WILLIAM ARTHUR
Regiment:
Military Number:
10881
Rank:
Private
Date Died
09/08/1915
Place died:
Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey
Age:
23
10 BAINTON TERRACE, GILLETT STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
