Lance/Corporal Edward Fleming
16309 10th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Killed in Action 31st August 1916, aged 25
Lived at 8 Newman Street
Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France
Burnley News 18th October 1916

Lance Corporal, 16309, 10th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Died 31st August 1916, aged 26
Son of James Fleming, of 8, Newman St., Burnley, Lancashire.
Husband of Emma McCartney (formerly Fleming), of 40, Dartmouth St., Boston, Mass., U.S.A. Married in May 1916.
Employed as a beamer.
Enlisted at Burnley, Lancashire on 27th October 1914

Burnley Express 18/10/1916
Four killed by Shell
Burnley Lance-Corporal’s Fate

Official news has been received of the death in action on August 31st, of Lance-Corporal Edward Fleming, of 8, Newman Street, Burnley. The deceased soldier, who attended St. John’s Catholic Church, Ivy Street, was well known and highly respected in the Burnley Lane district. He was 25 years of age and married. He enlisted along with his only brother, Sergt. James Fleming, of the Army Service Corps. In October, 1914. Prior to war he worked as a beamer at the Coronation Mill. Lance-Corpl. Fleming was in France in September last year and just before the battle of Loos he had to leave the trenches suffering from an abscess in the right groin. He was sent to Sunderland hospital, and on recovery returned to France, where he was wounded on February 21st last and sent to Huddersfield hospital. He again went into action and has now made the supreme sacrifice. Writing to the deceased’s parents, Coy. Q.M.S. Lord says –
“We were in a very bad part of the line and waiting to move up when a shell burst in the trench killing Teddy and three others. His death was instantaneous. Teddy and I were the best of friends. He was well respected in the company. He had just got his Lance-Corporal’s stripe and would have received further promotion. He was buried along with the others in a small cemetery, having a burial service by the R.C. chaplain. Please accept my sympathy in your sad bereavement.”

Burnley Express - 18th October 1916
Our Fallen Heroes Married in May
Official intimation from the War Office has reached his wife that Lance-Corpl. Edward Fleming (16309), of the Scottish Rifles, of 8 Newman Street, Burnley, was killed in action on August 31st. Lance-Corpl. Fleming, who was 25 years of age, was the younger son Mr J. Fleming, and before he enlisted on October 27th, 1914, worked as a beamer for the George Street Manufacturing Co at Coronation Mill. He was connected with the St John's R.C. Church, Ivy Street and was a member of the school football team. His brother is serving with the Army Service Corps. A very sad feature of the case is that deceased young soldier was only married in May last.
Lance-Corpl. Fleming, on Sept. 25, 1915, when at Loos, was taken out of the trenches suffering from an abscess in the right groin, and was brought to Sunderland Hospital. He went out again, and was wounded in the leg with a grenade on Feb. 21 this year, and was this time brought to Huddersfield Hospital, returning to the front about July. An uncle, Pioneer E. Fleming, of the Royal Engineers, was drowned at Southampton last October, and another uncle is serving with the forces in German East Africa.
Sergt. F. Croston, writing to the widow, said:
"It is with the deepest sympathy I write these few lines to let you know of your husband's death, which occurred on the night of August 31st, while he was doing his duty. He was a splendid soldier, and always willing to do anything, and always merry. he was thought a lot about in the platoon, and we will miss him very much. It may be a bit of comfort to you to know he died instantaneously without any pain, and he was buried on the battlefield of ----------, with a little cross with his name and date of death. I close with the deepest sympathy of all the boys of the platoon in this your sad bereavement."
A sympathetic tribute has also been received from C.Q.M.S Lord.

Burnley News - 21st October 1916
Burnley Lance-Corporal Killed by a Shell
As we announced on Wednesday, official news has been received of the death in action on August 31st, of Lance-Corporal Edward Fleming, of 10th Batt. Scottish Rifles, son of Mr. James Fleming, of 8, Newman Street, Burnley. The deceased soldier, who attended St. John’s Catholic Church, Ivy Street, was well known and highly respected in the Burnley Lane district. He was 25 years of age, and married. He enlisted along with his only brother Sergt. James Fleming, of the Army Service Corps, in October, 1914. Prior to war he worked as a beamer at the Coronation Mill. Lance-Corpl. Fleming was in France in September last year, and just before the battle of Loos he had to leave the trenches suffering from an abscess in the right groin. He was sent to Sunderland hospital, and on recovery returned to France, where he was wounded on February 21st last and sent to Huddersfield hospital. He again went into action and has now made the supreme sacrifice.