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№ 536

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25 March 2015

Hammer Price:
£300

The Great War memorial plaque issued in remembrance of Petty Officer A. R. Fleming, Royal Navy, who was among those lost in the submarine E-30 when she was mined in the North Sea in November 1916

Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Alfred Robert Fleming), minor corrosion to outer right hand field, otherwise good very fine
£100-120

Alfred Robert Fleming died on 22 November 1916, when H.M. submarine E-30 was mined in the North Sea, off Orfordness, Suffolk. There were no survivors. He had earlier been awarded the French Medaille Militaire. The husband of Annie Fleming of 44 Prince George Street, Portsea, he was 37 years of age and is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.