article_snippet.sent: L/Cpl Leakey said L/Cpl Leakey was 'uncomfortable' about being singled out ahead of others in L/Cpl Leakey regiment and insisted the battle was 'just one job, one patrol out of multiple patrols' L/Cpl Leakey is only the sixth living British soldier VC Queen has presented with L/Cpl Leakey medal.
article_snippet.sent: L/Cpl Leakey was invested in a ceremony at Windsor Castle.
article_snippet.sent: L/Cpl Leakey, of 1 Para, is the third British serviceman to receive the VC for bravery during the Afghanistan campaign but the other two awards were made posthumously.
article_snippet.sent: Speaking after the investiture, Lance Corporal Leakey  said:
article_snippet.sent: His parents, Rosemary and Mark Leakey, who saw His receive His medal from the Queen, said: ‘It’s been a very emotional, a very moving occasion. '
article_snippet.sent: Lance Corporal Leakey being hugged by Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Nicholas Carter (right), after Lance Corporal Leakey was named as being awarded the VC at Lancaster House in London in February .
article_snippet.sent: Lance Corporal Leakey is the second member of Lance Corporal Leakey family to receive the award, following Lance Corporal Leakey second cousin twice removed, Nigel Leakey (right), who fought in the Second World War .
article_snippet.sent: Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey's uncle Lieutenant General David Leakey, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, alongside his brother Ben, mother Rosie and father Mark in Westminster .
article_snippet.sent: Captain Brandon Bocian said: ‘I hadn’t met Lance Corporal Leakey prior to that day but am grateful for Lance Corporal Leakey actions.
article_snippet.sent: I am happy to hear that Lance Corporal Leakey is being formally recognised.
article_snippet.sent: Lance Corporal Leakey received the VC posthumously for Lance Corporal Leakey gallantry in an attack on Italian tanks in East Africa in 1941.
article_snippet.sent: Born in Kenya, he was the son of Arundell Gray Leakey – a cousin of Louis Leakey, the prominent Kenyan archaeologist.