Veteran Notes/Bio
- Listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall WW 1 ROH (1917) and Bygone Queanbeyan as "KIA France 19.12.1916(B)".
- “MAPPING ANZACS”: Service Number: 5475 ;POB:Colinton,Qld ; POE:Goulburn,NSW ;NOK: Father: J. Leach,Bungendore.
- AWM Embarkation Roll: Rank: Gunner ;Unit: 1 FAB [Field Artillery Brigade] - Reinforcements [1-11] (December 1914 - October 1915) ; Age: 26 10/12 ; Occupation:Miner ;DOE:24.08.1915 ; Embarked :11.10.1915. Melbourne. HMAT Nestor.A71.
- AWM Nominal Roll: Rank: Gunner ;Unit: 5 DAC ;DOE:24.08.1915 ; DOD 19.12.1916 .Buried St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France.
- See : OUR SOLDIERS BUNGENDORE & THE GREAT WAR. Glenda Ellis .2007.ISBN:978-1-74027-487-6
- Commemorated on the Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Panel 21.
- Application to use Rising Sun Badge:On 03 November 2015 the Bungendore War Memorial Committee applied to Army Branding to use the Rising Sun badge ona proposed street sign for "Leach" in the town of Bungendore as part of the Centenary of ANZAC Commemorations.This request was approved on 21 December 2015.
- Queanbeyann Age 29.12.16: Died in hospital in England from pneumonia prior to burial in France.
- Last updated January 2017.