Roll of Honour
Major
James Brown Montgomerie-Fleming
Major James Brown Montgomerie-Fleming was born on the 8th March 1884 in Musselburgh, East Lothian. He was the son of Jane R. Prichard and James Brown Montgomerie-Fleming. His father, also James Brown Montgomerie-Fleming, was a senior partner at Messrs Montgomerie and Flemings. Major Montgomerie-Fleming grew up in Kelvinside House, where Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman had been born.
After studying at Kelvinside Academy he attended the University to study Scots Law in the 1909/10 session, aged 25. J.B. Montgomerie-Fleming was apprenticed as a writer by Messrs A.J. and A. Graham.
James Brown Montgomerie-Fleming enlisted shortly after the outbreak of the War, joining the Sportsman’s Battalion in September 1914. In December of that year he became a Lieutenant in the East Yorkshire Regiment, and took part in the Battle of Gallipoli from July to December 1915. After recovering from appendicitis Lieutenant Montgomerie-Fleming fought at the Somme, where he earned promotion to Major.
The 6th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment fought in the Battle of Langemarck from the 16th to the 18th of August 1917, part of the larger Third Battle of Ypres. Major James Brown Montgomerie-Fleming died of his wounds on the 18th of August, likely sustained in this attack. His obituary records that he was a keen sportsman and a student of nature.
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Burial Place: Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Find War Dead