FLEMING, John Stanley
| Service Number: | 7241 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 October 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia, May 1893 |
| Home Town: | Muswellbrook, Muswellbrook, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Painter |
| Died: | Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia , 22 August 1965, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 3-88. 77. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7241, 13th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 7 Feb 1917: | Involvement Private, 7241, 13th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 7 Feb 1917: | Embarked Private, 7241, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Sydney | |
| 8 Nov 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 7241, 2nd Machine Gun Battalion, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery.
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
59 years ago today, on the 25th August 1965, Corporal John Stanley Fleming, referred to as Stan, 2nd Australian Machine Gun Battalion (Reg No-7241), painter from Mitchell Street, Muswellbrook, New South Wales, father of one (Ann), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 72. CATHOLIC 3-88. 77.
Born at Muswellbrook, New South Wales about 1893 to David, Alderman, died 31.1.1945, Muswellbrook, N.S.W., age 85, and Margaret Isabella Fleming nee Riley, died 30.10.1949, age 85, mother of 10; husband of Doris I Fleming nee Smythe, married 1928, Cessnock, N.S.W., died 17.6.1989, age 82, sleeping here, Stan enlisted on the 30th October 1916 with the 13th Battalion at Rutherford, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A18 Wiltshire on the 7th February 1917.
On leave to Paris from 25.2.1918 to 6.3.1918 and 19.2.1919 to 26.2.1919.
On leave to England from 11.9.1918 to 2.10.1918.
On leave to Italy from 22.4.1919 to 14.5.1919.
Commenced return to Australia 24.7.1919.
Stan arrived home on the 30th September 1919, being discharged on the 8th November 1919.
Mr. Fleming’s name has been inscribed on the Muswellbrook War Memorial and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Stan’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Officially commemorated – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html....
3 brothers served 1st A.I.F.
Older brother David Richard Flemming M.C., born 5.5.1891, Muswellbrook, New South Wales, married mercer from Mitchell Street, Muswellbrook, New South Wales, enlisted 22.7.1915, 19th Battalion, Reg No-2709, RTA 4.7.1919, Lieutenant, died 22.1.1964, age 72 - VWMA page: https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/158485,
officially commemorated - https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html....
Younger brother Ronald Francis Joseph Fleming, M.I.D., born 30.8.1894, Muswellbrook, New South Wales, shop assistant from Mitchell Street, Muswellbrook, New South Wales, enlisted as Francis Ronald Joseph Fleming 29.8.1915, 31st Battalion, Reg No-2314, KIA 29.9.1917, Polygon Wood, Belgium, Sergeant, age 23, memorial inscription at parent's gravesite.
VWMA page: https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/306226
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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