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'''William St. Clair Fleming''', ( – ) served in the [[Royal Naval Reserve]].
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Temporary {{LieutRNR}} '''William St. Clair Fleming''', D.S.C. ( – ) served in the [[Royal Naval Reserve]].
  
 
==Life & Career==
 
==Life & Career==
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Fleming was promoted to the rank of Temporary {{SubRNR}} on 14 September, 1914 and was assigned to the [[Peterhead Minesweeping Flotilla]].  He was appointed to the trawler ''Stephen Furness'' on 19 January 1915.<ref>Fleming Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/37/525.|}} f. 266.</ref>
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Fleming was promoted to the rank of Temporary {{LieutRNR}} on 2 April, 1915.  He was admitted to Queensferry Hospital for a disease of the glands on 14 July 1915.  ON 26 August, he suffered shock when he was in trawler ''Jasper'' when she was blown up in the North Sea.  He was landed at Wick.<ref>Fleming Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/37/525.|}} f. 266.</ref>
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On 30 October 1918 he was acquitted at Court Martial on a charge of having neglifently or by default suffered the loss of A.P.V. ''Pur[illeg]''.  By the time of his demobilisation on 31 January, 1920, he was regarded as a specialist in minesweeping.<ref>Fleming Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/37/525.|}} f. 266.</ref>
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Revision as of 00:03, 13 April 2022

Temporary Lieutenant R.N.R. William St. Clair Fleming, D.S.C. ( – ) served in the Royal Naval Reserve.

Life & Career

Fleming was promoted to the rank of Temporary Sub-Lieutenant R.N.R. on 14 September, 1914 and was assigned to the Peterhead Minesweeping Flotilla. He was appointed to the trawler Stephen Furness on 19 January 1915.[1]

Fleming was promoted to the rank of Temporary Lieutenant R.N.R. on 2 April, 1915. He was admitted to Queensferry Hospital for a disease of the glands on 14 July 1915. ON 26 August, he suffered shock when he was in trawler Jasper when she was blown up in the North Sea. He was landed at Wick.[2]

On 30 October 1918 he was acquitted at Court Martial on a charge of having neglifently or by default suffered the loss of A.P.V. Pur[illeg]. By the time of his demobilisation on 31 January, 1920, he was regarded as a specialist in minesweeping.[3]

See Also

Bibliography

Naval Appointments
Preceded by
William J. H. Hall
Captain of H.M.S. Blackburn
1 May, 1919[4] – 16 May, 1919[Inference]
Succeeded by
Walter F. Brothers
Preceded by
?
Captain of H.M.S. Huntley
16 May, 1919[5]
Succeeded by
Harold O. Joyce

Footnotes

  1. Fleming Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/37/525. f. 266.
  2. Fleming Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/37/525. f. 266.
  3. Fleming Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/37/525. f. 266.
  4. The Navy List. (June, 1919). p. 742.
  5. The Navy List. (September, 1919). p. 815.