Post World War I
Martin-Leake retired from the army after the war and resumed his company employment in India until he retired to England in 1937. In World War II he commanded an ARP post.
He died, aged 79, at High Cross, Hertfordshire. Following cremation at Enfield, Middlesex, Martin-Leake was buried in St John's Church, High Cross. He is commemorated with a plaque and a tree at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire.
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