sentences:  Leech would travel throughout Europe and eventually settled in England in 1919, with frequent visits to the South of France, to Marseilles, Grasse and Cagnes-sur-Mer.In about 1919 William was commissioned by a London solicitor Percy Dumville Botterell CBE (1880–1950) to paint a portrait of his wife May née Pearson (1881–1965).Percy had served as a commercial attaché to the Hague in the later years of the war and May had organised a relief center for released prisoners of war; one of these was William's brother, Lt-Col Cecil John Farran Leech (1882–1952) who made the introduction.