Leechman C B Lt 3rd Hussars
LIEUTENANT C. B. LEECHMAN
3RD (KING’S OWN) HUSSARS
COLIN BARCLAY LEECHMAN was the younger son of George Barclay and Mary Leechman, of Colombo, Ceylon, and of Campden House Court, London.
He entered the School in 1902, left in 1906, and entered Exeter College, Oxford, where he joined the O.T.C. of the University. He took his degree in 1911, and then received a Commission, as a University candidate, in the 3rd Hussars, and went with his Regiment to France at the beginning of the War, in August, 1914.
He was reported missing on the night of September 23rd, of that year, and it was only after six months that information was received from friendly Germans that he had been found, by one of their Sergeants, shot in the neutral ground between the English and the German lines.
The circumstances of his death are uncertain. It was his duty to keep connection between our own and the next French trenches. He had stated that he was going to conduct a French Officer back to his lines, but nobody saw this man. He left his men and horses in a safe place and went alone towards the French trenches. It is doubtful whether he was shot by a spy in disguise, or whether he mistook his way in the dark and was killed by a sniper. Age 26.
Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1
Leechman C B Lt 3rd Hussars
Source : The Illustrated London News 29th May 1915