FLEMING, Brian Jeffares
| Service Number: | 37790 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 January 1917, Roma, Qld. |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | Field Artillery Brigades |
| Born: | Bundaberg, Qld., 18 August 1898 |
| Home Town: | Gin Gin, Bundaberg, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Ipswich Boys' Grammar School, Bundaberg High School, University of Sydney |
| Occupation: | Bank Clerk |
| Died: | War related illness, St Martin's Hopsital, Brisbane, Qld., 17 October 1924, aged 26 years |
| Cemetery: |
Toowong (Brisbane General) Cemetery, Queensland |
| Memorials: | Bank of New South Wales Roll of Honour Book |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Jan 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 37790, Field Artillery Brigades, Roma, Qld. | |
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| 5 Nov 1917: | Involvement Driver, 37790, Field Artillery Brigades, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Sydney embarkation_ship_number: A15 public_note: '' | |
| 5 Nov 1917: | Embarked Driver, 37790, Field Artillery Brigades, HMAT Port Sydney, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
BRIAN JEFFARES FLEMING, son of the late Mr. P. F. Fleming and Mrs. G. E. Fleming, was born at Bundaberg, Queensland, on 18th August, 1898. He was educated at the Bundaberg High School and Ipswich Grammar School, and entered the service of the Bank at Gin Gin on 23rd October, 1914. He was transferred to Eumundi in the following November, and to Roma in August, 1915.
He enlisted on 1st February, 1917 and left Australia with the Field Artillery Reinforcements.
On 15th November, 1918, he was promoted to the rank of bombardier, and received further promotion to the rank of staff sergeant on 6th January, 1919.
He arrived back in Australia on 30th August, 1919.
Source - Bank of NSW Roll of Honour
OBITUARY.
After an illness of four months, Brian Jeffares Fleming passed away on Friday last at St. Martin's Hospital. A Queensland native, he was the youngest son of the well-known Fleming family of Gin Gin. At the age of 16, young Fleming who was an Ipswich Grammar School boy, entered the service of the Bank of New South Wales, being in turn at Gin Gin, Eumundi and Roma, from where he enlisted on his 18th birthday. He saw just upon three year's active service in France, returning after the Armistice, coincidentally touching Fremantle on his 21st birthday. He rejoined the bank's service pending his entry to the Sydney University, taking up the faculty of dentistry, and graduating with honours. As schoolboy, soldier and undergraduate, he was popular and well beloved. As a tribute to his worth, he was, in his third year, elected vice-president, and in the following year president of the Sydney University Dental Undergraduates' Association. His presidential address to the association was highly commented upon, and was published in extenso in the "Science Journal." At the termination of Ihis University career he practised his profession at Gympie. He was married in December last the daughter of Mr. Chalk of Gympie. Brian Fleming, who was possessed of a charmingly lovable disposition, endeared himself to all with whom he came in contact and he will, at the early age of 26 years, be sadly missed by a large circle of friends. He was laid to rest at Toowong on Saturday morning. Verily the Great War continues to take its toll.
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