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Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Martin-Leake, VC & Bar, VD, FRCS (4 April 1874 – 22 June 1953) was an English physician, officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps and a double recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
2. März 2015 · Lt. Col. Arthur Martin-Leake of the Imperial Yeomanry was the first to receive a second Victoria Cross. The first was from his actions in the Boer War in 1902. Martin-Leake went to help several wounded soldiers during a battle at Vlakfontein.
The First World War 1914. For his gallantry in the fighting between 29 October and 8 November 1914, Lieutenant A Martin-Leake, Royal Army Medical Corps, became the first man to be awarded a Bar to the Victoria Cross.
Articles, correspondence, photographs, obituaries, and memorabilia of Martin Leake (1874-1953), who won the Victoria Cross in 1902 during the Boer War and won a bar to it in 1914 on the Western Front during the First World War.
Lt. Col. Arthur Martin-Leake of the Imperial Yeomanry was the first person to ever receive two Victoria Crosses. The first one, he got during the Boer War in 1902 when he helped several wounded soldiers during a battle in Vlakfontein (he was shot three times and refused aid until everyone else was treated). The second, when he was 40 years old ...
14. Apr. 2016 · Lest we forget: Arthur Martin-Leake, VC and Bar, FRCS. Henry Connor. Journal of Medical Biography 2016 24: 4, 573-574 Download Citation. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citatio ...
At the beginning of February 1902, the commander of the South African Constabulary around Heidelberg, south-east of Johannesburg in the Transvaal, was ordered to move forward a line of posts held by his men south-east of Heidelberg.
