Editing Nigel Leakey (section)

==Early life==
Leakey was born in [[Kiganjo]], Kenya to English parents. Leakey's mother Elizabeth died in 1926. His father, Arundell Gray Leakey, was the son of Reverend John Arundell Leakey, clergyman in England. He was a cousin of archaeologists [[Louis Leakey]] and [[Richard Leakey]]. Leakey's younger brother [[Rea Leakey]] served in the [[Royal Tank Regiment]] in the Second World War, and later became a [[Major-general (United Kingdom)|major general]]. His sister Agnes Leakey (later Agnes Hofmeyr) worked for black and white reconciliation in Kenya.<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/agnes-hofmeyr-433687.html Obituary: Agnes Hofmeyr], The Independent, 26 January 2007</ref>

After serving in the [[Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry]] in the early 1900s,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27839|page=6475|date=26 September 1905}}</ref> Leakey's father became a farmer at Nyeri Station, west of [[Mount Kenya]] in [[Central Province, Kenya]], about {{convert|4|mi}} north of Kiganjo and about {{convert|100|mi}} north of [[Nairobi]]. His father was an honorary [[Kikuyu people|Kikuyu]] tribesman known as "Morungaru" ("tall and straight"); he was kidnapped and brutally murdered by the [[Mau Mau rebellion|Mau Mau]] in October 1954, and his second wife Mary was also killed.<ref>[http://owaahh.com/6-myths-about-the-mau-mau-war-some-are-total-bs/ 6 Myths about the ‘Mau Mau’ War]; [https://books.google.com/books?id=xqjgAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA78 The Charging Buffalo: A History of the Kenya Regiment 1937–1963], Guy Campbell, p.78; ''Time Magazine'' for Monday 1 November 1954, under ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080214133938/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,823659,00.html?promoid=googlep Blood Brother]''.</ref>

Leakey was educated in Kenya, and then attended [[Bromsgrove School]] in England.<ref>[http://www.hellfirecorner.co.uk/vc.htm The Five Victoria Crosses of Bromsgrove School]{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924025618/http://www.hellfirecorner.co.uk/vc.htm |date=24 September 2015 }}</ref> Returning to Kenya, at the outbreak of war in 1939 he joined the [[Kenya Regiment]] and, after training, was attached to the [[King's African Rifles]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Campbell|first=Guy |title=The Charging Buffalo: A History of the Kenya Regiment 1937–1963 |page=26|publisher=Leo Cooper, London|year=1986}} {{ISBN|0-436-08290-X}}</ref>