Lance Corporal Edward Fleming

Service Number: 16309

10th Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

Killed in Action 31 August 1916, aged 26

Son of James Fleming, 8 Newman Street, Burnley

Husband of Emma McCartney (formerly Fleming), Boston, Massachusetts, USA

From the Burnley News dated 21st October 1916: Burnley Lance Corporal Killed by a Shell

As we announced on Wednesday, official news has been received of the death in action on August 31st, of Lance Corporal Edward Fleming, of 10th Batt. Scottish Rifles, son of Mr. James Fleming, of 8 Newman Street, Burnley.  The deceased soldier, who attended St. John’s Catholic Church, Ivy Street, was well known and highly respected in the Burnley Lane district. He was 25 years of age, and married. He enlisted along with his only brother Sergt. James Fleming, of the Army Service Corps, in October, 1914. Prior to war he worked as a beamer at the Coronation Mill. Lance Corporal Fleming was in France in September last year, and just before the battle of Loos he had to leave the trenches suffering from an abscess in the right groin.  He was sent to Sunderland hospital, and on recovery returned to France, where he was wounded on February 21st last and sent to Huddersfield hospital.  He again went into action and has now made the supreme sacrifice.

Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France: Pier & Face 4 D