THE Council and Members of the Kipling Society extend deep sympathy to Mrs. Fleming on the death of her husband, Lt. Colonel J. M. Fleming, late of the Indian Army. Colonel Fleming was a son of Surgeon-General Andrew Fleming of the Indian Army Medical Service, and was born in India in 1858. His paternal grandfather was Professor John Fleming, of Aberdeen. His mother, owing to a fortunate circumstance which found her in Bengal, escaped death in the Indian Mutiny, practically all the members of her family perishing in Cawnpore in 1857.
The military career of Colonel Fleming began in 1879, when he was commissioned in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers. After a long and active career in the Army, Colonel Fleming retired in 1911, and busied himself with a work entitled ” T h e A.B.C. of the More Important Battles of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” which was to remain in manuscript, though it had been favourably commented upon, in his capacity as a reader, by the late Lord Tweedsmuir, then John Buchan. The outbreak of war prevented publication. He belonged to a family of three sons and two daughters. Both his sisters have survived him, and one of his brothers also.
Colonel Fleming married Miss Alice Macdonald Kipling, a sister of Rudyard Kipling, and so entered a family with connections like Earl Baldwin, Burne-Jones and Sir Edward J. Poynter. The circle in which Mrs. Fleming moved in her girlhood included such famous figures as Ruskin, William Morris, Mrs. Meynell, Lord Roberts and Sir Frank Benson.
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