| Surname: | Leach |
| Initials: | S |
| Rank: | Corporal |
| Army Number: | 24318480 |
| Notes: | RMP. Ambushed and wounded by the IRA in Munster, West Germany. Extract from the Daily Mirror, 3/3/1980. Ambush Victim fight for life. A roving IRA terror squad was blamed las night for the ambush of a British military police patrol in West Germany. Doctors were fighting yesterday to save Corporal Stewart Leach, 22, who was his twice in the back. Two terrorists opened up from behind a telephone box at the Redcaps' car stopped at traffic lights near an army barracks in Munster. They fired at least 21 bullets. The Corporal, who comes from the Taunton area, collapsed over the wheel. A young German couple who ran from their car helped to save his life by giving hims first aid. A second policeman in the vehicle, Corporal John Helly, 25 - the father of twins was unhurt. Extract from the Aberdeen Press & Journal 14/7/1988. A month later a military policeman Cpl. Stewart Leach, was his by two shots as his car waited at traffic lights in Munster, Then a corporal in the Devon & Dorset Regiment was his near his Osnabruck base. Extract from the People, 30/3/1980. A British soldier had a date with his bride yesterday - and two IRA bullets in the back failed to stop him keeping it. Corporal Stewart Leach, 22, limped down the isle of his village church in civilian clothes to wed Lancashire lass Anita Smith. He couldn't wear the blue dress uniform he's had specially made because after being shot in an ambush at Munster, West Germany, a month ago, he lost so much weight it didn't fit him. Stewart, from West Monkton, Somerset was so seriously wounded it was feared at first that he and his WRAC bride would have to wed at his bedside. Stuart Leach |
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| Decoration: | Member of the British Empire (London Gazette: 59090 Page: 19 June 9, 1909) |
| Citation: | Stewart Leach, lately Principal Officer, HM Prison Service, London, Ministry of Justice. |