FLEMING, Arthur Rudolph
| Service Number: | 85 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 1st Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Petersham, New South Wales, Australia, 16 August 1883 |
| Home Town: | Summer Hill, Ashfield, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 5 November 1916, aged 33 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Baulkham Hills William Thompson Masonic School War Memorial, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Sydney United Grand Lodge Honour Roll, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 85, 1st Field Ambulance, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: Middle name incorrectly spelt as Randolph on original record | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 85, 1st Field Ambulance, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 5 Nov 1916: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 85, 1st Field Ambulance, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 85 awm_unit: 1st Australian Field Ambulance awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1916-11-05 |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
Arthur Rudolph FLEMING (Service Number 85) was born in Summer Hill, Sydney, in 1883. He joined the NSWGR as a telephone boy at Summer Hill in 1895, and in 1899 was promoted to junior porter, Sydney District. In 1905 he was transferred to Junee, where he was promoted to porter in 1906, and in 1907 became a ticket collector. In 1910 he was transferred again, to Lewisham, as a junior clerk, and in 1911 promoted to clerk at Hornsby. In 1913 when he was again transferred, to Albury, his colleagues and friends at Hornsby gave him a farewell present of a gold watch guard and pendant, as a token of their esteem. He was granted leave to enlist in the AIF in August 1914 in Sydney, aged 31.
He died of wounds received in action in France on 5 November 1916. His grave site was not registered, and he is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Submitted 6 July 2023 by John Oakes
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Arthur Rudolph FLEMING (Service Number 85) was born in Summer Hill, Sydney, in 1883. He joined the NSW Government Railways as a telephone boy at Summer Hill in 1895. In 1899 he was promoted to junior porter, Sydney District. In 1905 he was transferred to Junee, where he was promoted to porter in 1906. In 1907 became a ticket collector. In 1910 he was transferred to Lewisham as a junior clerk. In 1911 he was promoted to clerk at Hornsby. In 1913 he was transferred, to Albury. His colleagues and friends at Hornsby gave him a farewell present of a gold watch guard and pendant as a token of their esteem.
He was granted leave to enlist in the AIF in August 1914 in Sydney. He was then aged 31.
He was allocated to the Field Ambulance and embarked from Sydney in October 1914.
He was sent to Gallipoli from Egypt in April 1915. He went back in Egypt in May (from where he sent a lengthy letter, published in the Border Morning Mail & Riverina Times on 2/7/1915). He went back to Gallipoli in July. He was admitted to hospital in September at Mudros (on the Greek island of Lemnons)with varicose veins and phlebitis. He went subsequently to Malta. Then he went to hospital in Bristol, England, in October.
In May 1916 he was sent to France. He joined his unit in June. He was appointed Lance Corporal in October,.
He died of wounds received in action on 5th November 1916. His grave site was not registered, and he is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
- based on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
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