Leamon was a Royal Marines commando and also played for non-League side Bath City before taking up football professionally.
He joined Newport County in February 1946, and scored a remarkable 23 goals in 16 unofficial wartime matches for them.
[1] On the resumption of League football in the summer of 1946 he played just four games for Newport, scoring three times, before moving to Bristol Rovers.
[1] As well as playing football, Leamon was an accomplished bowls player, representing Wales over twenty times in international competitions, despite being born in Jersey.
[1] In Jersey as a young boy, he won the Jersey Cap for Football In later life he worked as a security guard for the BBC, and it was while working in this capacity that he suffered a heart attack at St Paul's Cathedral during the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana.