Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History BookAGUE MASON=, M.B., T.C.D., Lieut., Royal Army Medical Corps, only _s._ of Alfred George Fleming, of Beechfield, Blackrock, co. Dublin, Deputy Cashier, Bank of Ireland; _b._ Wilton Lodge, Blackrock, co. Dublin, 8 Feb. 1890; and was educ. Avoca School, Blackrock, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated with a Moderatorship in 1911, and subsequently obtained the degrees of M.B. and B.Ch. with honours. At the outbreak of the war he was House Surgeon of the Meath Hospital and Co. Dublin Infirmary, and volunteering was gazetted Lieut. R.A.M.C. 16 Aug. 1914. He was sent to Egypt to meet the Indian Troops, and was attached to the Lahore Indian General Hospital at Marseilles, Boulogne and Montreuil. Subsequently he joined the 26th Field Ambulance, was in the attack on Fromelles 9-10 May, 1915, and was killed in action near Givenchy, 16 June, 1915, while attending to the wounded. He was buried in the Guards Cemetery there; _unm._ His Col. wrote: "He was loyal and devoted to his profession and gallantly performed his duties with us. He had endeared himself to all of us, and we all deplore his loss most sincerely." [Illustration: =Geoffrey M. M. Fleming.=] =FLEMING, GEORGE JAMES=, Officers' Steward, 1st Class, L. 4352, Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =FLEMING, MALCOLM JAMES HENDERSON=, Lieut., 1/5th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), only _s._ of James Fleming, of Kilmory, Skelmorlie, co. Ayr, J.P., by his wife, Jane, dau. of Andrew Henderson, of Glasgow, merchant, and grandson of James Fleming, of Newlandsfield, co. Renfrew, J.P.; _b._ Kilmory, 27 April, 1883; educ. Boutenburn Raspur School, Largs; and Fettes College, Edinburgh; afterwards going to Hanover for six months, and then to Lausanne for a like period, to perfect his German and French. He served his apprenticeship as an engineer with engineering firms in Paisley, and with Siemens, Berlin, and on returning home was offered a post with Messrs. Fleming, Reid & Co., Worsted Spinners, Greenock, and at the time of the outbreak of the war had become a sub-manager with them. He had joined the 5th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 11 June, 1911, and obtained his commission as Lieut., 30 Oct. 1912, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for Imperial service. He left Dunfermline with his regt. for Egypt, 31 May, 1915; went to the Dardanelles at the end of June; was wounded at Achi Baba on 12 July, and died on board the hospital ship Asturias, 14 July, 1915. He had volunteered to lead a bombing party, and it was while doing that that he was hit. He was _unm._, and was buried at sea. His Commanding Officer wrote that "he went forth to the arduous work full of courage and determination and was an inspiration to his men." After he was wounded he greatly lessened his chance of recovery by insisting on giving up his place to others at the dressing station. One of his men who met him being carried to the surgeon spoke to him saying: "Sir, I am sorry you have been hit." Lieut. Fleming replied: "Marvellous charge. Glorious death." Another wrote: "He was a splendid officer. He was daring, and feared not death. He was most thoughtful of his men." [Illustration: =Malcolm J. H. Fleming.=] =FLETCHER, EDWARD=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po./8922, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =FLETCHER, FREDERICK GEORGE=, Private, No. 1014, 8th Battn. (90th Winnipeg Rifles) Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Richard Fletcher, of Hill Farm, Steventon, co. Berks, Labourer, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of William Denton, of Steventon; _b._ Hill Farm, Steventon, 4 April, 1891; educ. there; went to Canada in July, 1913, and settled at Portage La Prairie as a mill hand; enlisted on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914, and trained on Salisbury Plain. He went to France, 17 Feb. 1915; served through the Battles of Ypres and Langemarck, when the Canadians, to use Lord French's words, "saved the situation," and was killed in action at Langemarck, 24 April, 1915, while returning from binding up a comrade's wounds; _unm._ =FLETCHER, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110730 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =FLETCHER, REGINALD WILLIAM=, 2nd Lieut., Royal Field Artillery, yst. _s._ of Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher, of Norham End, Oxford, formerly Fellow of All Souls' and Magdalen Colleges; _b._ Oxford, 19 March, 1892; educ. Eton, and Balliol College, Oxford, and was gazetted, with a University Commission, to the 8th Brigade, R.F.A., on the day war was declared; went to France, 20 Aug., and was killed in action at Veldhoek, Belgium, 31 Oct. 1914, while serving with the 118th Battery. He was stroke of a Trial Eight at Oxford in three successive years, 1911-12-13, and also for four years stroke of his college boat; he rowed in the Leander Four at Henley Regatta in 1913, and in the Oxford University Eight in March, 1914. =FLETCHER, WALTER BELL=, Private, No. 445, 4th Platoon Coy., 14th Battn. 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of James Fletcher, of 2, Fletcher Street, Cockermouth, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of John (and Elizabeth) Atkins; _b._ Cockermouth, co. Cumberland, 11 April, 1879; educ. Board School, Cockermouth, afterwards joining the Cockermouth Volunteers when 18 years of age. He went to Australia in 1911, and settled at Traralgon, Victoria, and on the outbreak of war he joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt with the main force, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 5 May, 1915. He had been 10 days in the trenches at Gaba Tepe, and was shot by a sniper when going for water. He _m._ in Edinburgh 15 years ago, (--) (Ethel Street, Lock Park, Traralgon, Victoria, Australia), dau. of John Walker, of Portobello, and had three sons and two daus.: James, _b._ 1902; John William, _b._ 1906; Walter, _b._ 1908; Winifred, _b._ 1904; and Emily Isabel, _b._ 1913. =FLETCHER, WALTER GEORGE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 2nd _s._ of Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher, of Norham End, Oxford, formerly Fellow of All Souls' and Magdalen Colleges; _b._ Oxford, 7 Jan. 1888; educ. Eton (1901-6, rowed No. 7 in the Eton VIII. at Henley in 1906, and was Capt. of the School, 1906, and won the Jelf Verse Prize); and Balliol College, Oxford (1907-10, rowed in the Balliol College VIII. in 1907); was for six months in 1910-11 teacher of English in the Real-Gymnasium at Schleswig, and in the autumn of the latter year went as a classical master to Shrewsbury School. In September, 1913, he became an assistant classical master at Eton College, and on 22 Oct. 1913, was gazetted a 2nd Lieut. in the Eton O.T.C. On the outbreak of war he was selected as an interpreter in the Intelligence Corps (6 Aug. 1914). He went to the Front with the first contingent on Aug. 12, served through the retreat from Mons, and in the subsequent advance |