Captain Fleming was gazetted to the ist Devons in 1910, and on the outbreak of the War was at once sent to France. He was mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Military Cross for distinguished services in the Machine Gun Section, in June, 191 5. He was then attached to the Royal Flying Corps, and after a course of training at Tidworth returned to France n 1917. On August l0th, 1917, he was reported  missing.' On that day he was sent out with a patrol of four machines over the Menin-Roulers road, east of Ypres. It was a bad day, with a lot of cloud and a forty-mile wind blowing from the west, and it was his first flight on an S.E.5 Aero- plane. At about I p.m. his patrol was attacked by some eight German Albatross Scouts, and a sharp fight began, in the course of which our formation got scattered. On emerging from a cloud the patrol-leader saw Fleming heavily  engaged with three enemy planes far to the east. He was putting up a splendid fight, firing at close range on one of the enemy, while another of the Germans was close behind firing at him. The patrol-leader went to his assistance, and together they so settled the Germans that they brought down one and drove the others off. Then the leader and Fleming startedto return home in the teeth of the wind, and in a bank of cloud the leader lost sight of Fleming But from our aerodrome his machine was seen to land behind the German line, and it was thought he must have been forced down by lack of petrol. However, in January, 1918, definite information came through that Fleming was killed in the action of August l0th and was buried in the cemetery of Ledeghan.