Family of Gordon Lawrence FLEMING and Lydia Annie Matilda STEVENS

Husband:	Gordon Lawrence FLEMING (1885-1943)
Wife:	Lydia Annie Matilda STEVENS (c. 1897-bef1952)
Marriage	27 Jun 1920	St Mary, Newington, Surrey

Husband: Gordon Lawrence FLEMING

These notes are taken from Alex Everists records and were sent to her by Tony Teague.

Gordon Fleming was in the Army in WW1,

I did not know it was Scots Guards and so when I looked up the medal records

I found two possibles, either:

1. Rifle brigade ASC 3/18770, T/458698 & awarded Victory Medal & British War

Medal, OR,

2. Scots Guards 1/84 Private No.9406, BEF 1914, 19212 2688433, Star (awarded

to those infrom the outset), Disembarked in France 7.10.1914.

Your information would suggest he was the 2nd of these.

There were three brothers who all served in WW1:-

Gordon's older brother Private David Fleming was No. 4899, 1st/24th

Battallion London Regiment and was killed on the Somme in September 1916; he

has no known grave. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial France; over

58,000men were lost in one day in the initial assault on Thiepval alone. He

was awarded the Victory Medal & British War Medal, per PRO records. He had

previouslyserved in the South African Campaign.

Petty Officer Alfred Robert FLEMING,Royal Navy, was lost at sea exactly two

months later, according to PortsmouthRecords Office. He was the holder of

the Medaille Militaire of France, which is fairly unusual, and is

commemorated on the Royal Navy War Memorial on the seafront at Portsmouth.

The loss of the E30 (submarine) is generally attributedto hitting a mine,

either in the Heligoland Bight, or in a scattered field offOrford Ness. He

served as no. PO 180617 and was awarded the Victory Medal, the Star & the

British War Medal.

My mother started to research our family tree over 25 years ago, so I have a

lot of documents to support the bare facts shown on the website; I can let

you have a copy of David Bell Fleming's marriage certificate if it is of

interest?

I would also be most interested in a copy of the certificate you have for

Gordon's marriage and to know more about how you are linked to him.

I look forward to hearing from you again.

Best wishes

Tony