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Lieut Geoffrey Montague Mason Fleming

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Lieut Geoffrey Montague Mason Fleming Veteran

Birth
Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland
Death
16 Jun 1915 (aged 25)
Cuinchy, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Burial
Cuinchy, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Add to Map
Plot
I. H. 12.
Memorial ID
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Montague Mason Fleming.
The Royal Army Medical Corps.
The Bedfordshire Regiment.
attached to the 2nd Battalion.
aged 25.

Only child of Alfred G. and Marie M.R. Fleming, of Beechfield, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
M.B., B.Ch., Trinity College, Dublin.

Birth.
Geoffrey Montague Mason Fleming, son of Alfred George Fleming and Marie Marguerite Regina Fleming, formerly Dupont, was born on 8 February 1890, at Winton Lodge, Sydney Avenue, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
His father was a Clerk in The Bank of Ireland.

for further details, see the bio of his mother.

Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:

FLEMING, GEOFFREY MONTAGUE MASON, M.B., T.C.D., Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps, only son of Alfred George Fleming, of Beechfield, Blackrock, co. Dublin, Deputy Cashier, Bank of Ireland; b. Wilton Lodge, Blackrock, co. Dublin, 8 Feb. 1890; and was educated Avoca School, Blackrock, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated with a Moderatorship in 1911, and subsequently obtained the degrees of M.B. and B.Ch. with honours. At the outbreak of the war he was House Surgeon of the Meath Hospital and Co. Dublin Infirmary, and volunteering was gazetted Lieut. R.A.M.C. 16 Aug. 1914. He was sent to Egypt to meet the Indian Troops, and was attached to the Lahore Indian General Hospital at Marseilles, Boulogne and Montreuil. Subsequently he joined the 26th Field Ambulance, was in the attack on Fromelles 9-10 May, 1915, and was killed in action near Givenchy, 16 June, 1915, while attending to the wounded. He was buried in the Guards Cemetery there; unmarried. His Col. wrote: "He was loyal and devoted to his profession and gallantly performed his duties with us. He had endeared himself to all of us, and we all deplore his loss most sincerely."

The above bio courtesy of
A Fifer in Exile

his name has been recorded on the following War Memorials,
St. Philip & St. James Church, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
Trinity College, Dublin.
St. Matthias' Church. Leeson Park, Dublin.

His name has been included in the
Mount Jerome Cemetery War Memorial
Lieutenant Geoffrey Montague Mason Fleming.
The Royal Army Medical Corps.
The Bedfordshire Regiment.
attached to the 2nd Battalion.
aged 25.

Only child of Alfred G. and Marie M.R. Fleming, of Beechfield, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
M.B., B.Ch., Trinity College, Dublin.

Birth.
Geoffrey Montague Mason Fleming, son of Alfred George Fleming and Marie Marguerite Regina Fleming, formerly Dupont, was born on 8 February 1890, at Winton Lodge, Sydney Avenue, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
His father was a Clerk in The Bank of Ireland.

for further details, see the bio of his mother.

Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:

FLEMING, GEOFFREY MONTAGUE MASON, M.B., T.C.D., Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps, only son of Alfred George Fleming, of Beechfield, Blackrock, co. Dublin, Deputy Cashier, Bank of Ireland; b. Wilton Lodge, Blackrock, co. Dublin, 8 Feb. 1890; and was educated Avoca School, Blackrock, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated with a Moderatorship in 1911, and subsequently obtained the degrees of M.B. and B.Ch. with honours. At the outbreak of the war he was House Surgeon of the Meath Hospital and Co. Dublin Infirmary, and volunteering was gazetted Lieut. R.A.M.C. 16 Aug. 1914. He was sent to Egypt to meet the Indian Troops, and was attached to the Lahore Indian General Hospital at Marseilles, Boulogne and Montreuil. Subsequently he joined the 26th Field Ambulance, was in the attack on Fromelles 9-10 May, 1915, and was killed in action near Givenchy, 16 June, 1915, while attending to the wounded. He was buried in the Guards Cemetery there; unmarried. His Col. wrote: "He was loyal and devoted to his profession and gallantly performed his duties with us. He had endeared himself to all of us, and we all deplore his loss most sincerely."

The above bio courtesy of
A Fifer in Exile

his name has been recorded on the following War Memorials,
St. Philip & St. James Church, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
Trinity College, Dublin.
St. Matthias' Church. Leeson Park, Dublin.

His name has been included in the
Mount Jerome Cemetery War Memorial

Inscription

[transcription of the headstone in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Harold's Cross, Dublin]

Till
He
Come

In Loving Memory
of
GEOFFREY M.M. FLEMING M.B., T.C.D.,
dearly loved only son of
ALFRED G. and M.M.R. FLEMING
killed in action at Givenchy
while attending to the wounded
16th June 1915, aged 22
buried in France
also the above named
MARIE M. R. FLEMING
beloved wife of
ALFRED G. FLEMING
fell asleep 16th July 1929
aged 66
also the above named
ALFRED GEORGE FLEMING
eldest son of the late
ARTHUR & FRANCES M. FLEMING
fell asleep Sunday 22nd Decr. 1929
aged 72
SAMUEL H. G. FLEMING
7th Aug. 1942.



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