BORN HULL 1878. SON OF WILLIAM & MARY LEEMING, OF 140, CUMBERLAND STREET, HULL. HE HAD AN ELDER BROTHER & FOUR SISTERS.
WORKED AS AN OIL MILLER BEFORE JOINING THE ARMY ON 21 MAY 1901. FORMER SOLDIER OF THE YORK & LANCASTER REGIMENT & ARMY RESERVIST. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 4 INCHES, TALL, 123 LBS WEIGHT, 36 INCH CHEST, BROWN EYES, DARK BROWN HAIR, GOOD CHARACTER, CHURCH OF ENGLAND RELIGION, TATTOOS ON RIGHT FOREARM.
IN CIVILIAN LIFE, HE WORKED AT EARLES CEMENT WORKS WITH HIS BROTHER IN LAW JOHN SPARKS.
LIVED WITH HIS SISTER, AT 7, EARLS COURT, WILMINGTON (1911 CENSUS)
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL WITH THE 9TH (SERVICE) YORK AND LANCS BATTALION. KILLED IN ACTION, AT OVILLERS, ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, 01/07/1916, AGED 38. ALL 9 YORK & LANCS REGIMENT ATTACKED OVILLERS, SOMME TO NO AVAIL – 800 CASUALTIES.
HE IS BURIED AT SERRE ROAD CEMETERY, SOMME, FRANCE.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, ANNIE ELIZABETH LEEMING, (BORN 30 APRIL 1884), OF 7, & 11, EARLS ROW, WILMINGTON (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SHE WAS AWARDED WEEKLY WAR PENSION OF 10 SHILLINGS. NO DEPENDENT CHILDREN.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 8TH NOVEMBER 1916, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH.*
HIS ELDER BROTHER, ROBERT WILLIAM LEEMING SERVED WITH THE LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS & LIVED AT 12, KLONDYKE AVENUE, SUTTON ROAD, HULL.
