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Sir Henry Leach spent forty-five years of active service in the Royal Navy, starting as a thirteen-year-old Cadet in 1937 and finishing as a fifty-nine year old Admiral of the Fleet in 1982. Son of a distinguished naval Captain, killed in action while commanding the Battleship Prince of Wales in 1941, he spent most of World War II at sea, mainly in the North Atlantic and the Far East.