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Joshua Leakey
Joshua Mark Leakey, (born 1988) is a British soldier currently serving in the Parachute Regiment. In 2015, Leakey was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration for valour in the British and Commonwealth armed forces, for his involvement in a joint UK–US raid in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on 22 August 2013. He is the first living British soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross for the War in Afghanistan.
==Early life and family==
Leakey is the son of retired RAF officer and current director of the Armed Forces Christian Union, Air Commodore Mark Leakey, and his wife Rosemary, an occupational therapist. He has a younger brother Ben.〔(Mark Leakey ), Full Gospel Businessmen UK & Ireland. Retrieved 4 March 2015.〕
Leakey was educated at Witham Hall preparatory school and, from 1999 to 2006, Christ's Hospital, an independent school in Horsham, West Sussex. He began a degree in military history at the University of Kent but dropped out during the first term to join the military.
He is the second member of his family to be awarded the Victoria Cross. His second cousin twice removed, Nigel Leakey, was posthumously awarded the medal during the Second World War. Lieutenant General David Leakey, the current Black Rod and a former senior British Army officer, is the son of Nigel's brother Major General Rea Leakey.〔(EU military staff chief revisits place where his father served ), Times of Malta, 5 March 2010. Retrieved 4 March 2015; (Obituary: Maj-Gen Rea Leakey ), The Independent, 21 December 1999. Retrieved 4 March 2015.〕
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