Michael Fleming

Able Seaman

Michael Fleming was my first cousin.

He was born in St. Johns, Newfoundland. He was the son of my fathers sister Mrs Anne (Christina) Fleming nee Connors.
She had two other sons Frank and Richard who served in the army and who survived the war.
His father Richard Fleming was a WW1 soldier serving in the Newfoundland Blue Puttee Regiment, he had joined with 500 other men the day war was declared in 1914. Out of the 500 only 15 came back alive.
I remember as a small boy of 4 or 5 meeting Michael when his ship came to New York in I think 1940 or early in 1941.
Before serving on HMS Exeter he served on a ship called HMS Royal Arthur I believe.
I was told by my Aunt Anne that she did not know until after the war if he was alive or dead. The captain of the ship wrote her a letter and told her he had been killed the day before the ship sank. He was serving in a turret when a shell came through the turret but did not explode taking off his leg, and that he had died before they could get him down to the hospital.
I am married to his sister Rose Fleming's oldest daughter.
All of us in the family are very proud of him and of his service for God, King and Country 

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