SWB. Samuel P Leigh. Essex Yeo & 2 Lieut Suffolk Rgt. Loss of eye & hand. Freedom City of London. Bury, St Edmunds.

Silver war badge 2447 .

Awarded to 2nd Lieutenant Samuel Preston leigh of 5th battalion Suffolk Regiment.

Previous 1265 in Essex Yeomanry.

Born 1895 went to Sidney Sussex college Cambridge.

France 30th November 1914 .

2nd November 1915 2nd lieut 5th Suffolk Regiment whist with Mediterranean expeditionary force wounded .

Discharged gunshot wounds to hand and eyes ( loss of hand and a eye ).

Lived heathermere, northgate avenue ,Bury St Edmunds & 66 canning Street, Liverpool.

Awarded freedom of City of London 25th October 1929.

1939 living at greystones, Marsh Lane, a export executive.

Dird 6th December 1975 at Bearsted in Kent.