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Major General Arundell Rea Leakey & Bar (30 December 1915 – 6 October 1999) was an officer in the British Army. He served in the Royal Tank Regiment in the Second World War, in North Africa, Italy and France. He later served in Korea, in the Arab Legion, and commanded a brigade in the British Army of the Rhine in the 1960s. He served as Director-General of Fighting Vehicles and finally as the commander of British troops in Malta and Libya. He retired in 1966, and became Director of the Wolfson Foundation. An autobiography, ''Leakey's Luck'', was published in 1999. His father Gray Leakey and step-mother Mary were murdered by the Mau Mau in Keyna in 1954. His older brother Nigel Leakey was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross in the Second World War, and a cousin Joshua Leakey was awarded the Victoria Cross in 2015. One of his sons is Lieutenant General David Leakey. ==Early life== Leakey was born in Nairobi, Kenya on 30 December 1915. His father, Arundell Gray Leakey, was the son of Reverend John Arundell Leakey, a clergyman in England.〔(Obituary: Maj-Gen Rea Leakey ), The Independent, 21 December 1999〕 Leakey's father had served in a Volunteer Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in the early 1900s. Through his great-grandfather James Shirley Leakey (1824–1871), one of the eleven children of the portrait painter James Leakey, he is related to the missionary Henry Leakey, so to paleoanthropologists Louis Leakey and Richard Leakey. His older brother Nigel Leakey was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross in 1945, for his actions in Ethiopia in 1941. Another relative Joshua Leakey was awarded the Victoria Cross in 2015, for his actions in Afghanistan in 2013. His sister Agnes Leakey (1917–2007) (later Agnes Hofmeyr) worked for reconciliation in Kenya.〔(Obituary: Agnes Hofmeyr ), The Independent, 26 January 2007〕 Leakey's mother Elizabeth died in 1926, when he was 10 years old. He was educated at boarding school in Kenya, and then at Weymouth College in England. After attending the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he became a second lieutenant in the Royal Tank Corps in 1936. Leakey served with the 1st Battalion in Egypt, where he helped with the invention of the Coles Universal Sun Compass.〔 He was promoted to lieutenant in January 1939. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rea Leakey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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