Private Alfred Clarence Flemming

Note: Last name is spelt incorrectly as "Fleming" on the Baradine memorial. The correct spelling is "Flemming".
Service Australian Army
Service Number NX19386
Date of Birth 7 Dec 1916
Place of Birth GILGANDRA, NSW
Date of Enlistment 28 May 1941
Locality on Enlistment BATHURST, NSW
Place of Enlistment PADDINGTON, NSW
Next of Kin FLEMMING, ROBERT
Date of Death 17 Mar 1945
Rank Private
Posting on Death 2/19 Australian Infantry Battalion
Prisoner of War Yes. From AWM : NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX19386 Private Alfred Clarence Flemming, 2/19th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo, having been transferred there from Singapore as a part of E Force. The 500 Australian and 500 British POW's who made up E Force, left Changi on 28 March 1943, on board the S.S. DeKlerk arriving at Berhala Island (adjacent to Sandakan Harbour) on 15 April 1943. The POW's were held there until 5 June, when they were taken by barge to Sandakan. The next day they were transferred to the 8 Mile Camp, which was about half a mile from the B Force compound. Private Flemming, aged 28, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 17 March 1945. He was the son of Robert Victor and Mary Jane Flemming, of Baradine, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 12. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.