Family :

Education & Career :

He went to Felsted before going up to Cambridge.

Fielding read Law at Caius (1898) and was a member of the Boat Club.

Admitted to the Law Society Jan. 1905. Member of Fuller, Whittington & Fielding, of Bath.

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

The East African Campaign was a series of battles and guerrilla actions which started in German East Africa (now Tanzania) and ultimately impacted portions of Mozambique, Northern Rhodesia, British East Africa, Uganda, and the Belgian Congo. The German colonial forces, led by Lieutenant Colonel Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, skillfully fought for the duration of World War I and surrendered only after that war had ended. Other campaigns were conducted in West and South West Africa.

Detail :

The West African Regiment was a single battalion regiment that had been raised in 1898 in order to defend the critically important naval base at Freetown, Sierra Leone. The regiment consisted of about 1200 native soldiers with 60 seconded British officers. It had been recognised that the Europeans who went there were very prone to diseases to which the local population were relatively immune.

Early in the war, the allies attacked the German holdings and pushed them back into the more mountainous regions on the Nigerian border. British actions here suffered heavy casualties due to the efficiency of the German machine gunners before the remaining Germans surrendered in 1916.

Edward Fleming Fielding died at Fort Dachang on the 24th October 1915 and is buried in Freetown.

See : Province of Somerset for further detail.

Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette 06 November 1915 "LIEUT. E.F. FIELDING KILLED - BATH SOLICITOR'S DEATH IN THE CAMEROONS - New has reached Bath of the death in action in the Cameroons of Lieut. E.F. Fielding, West African Regiment. Deceased was a partner in the legal firm of Messrs. Fuller, Whittington and Fielding, Queen Square, which he joined in October 1909. He was in the O.T.C. at Cambridge University, and on the outbreak of war enlisted in the Artists Rifles. In February last he was given a commisssion in the 9th Somersets, but was transferred to the West African Regiment and sailed for the country in August. The War Office intimation of Lieutenant Fielding's death in action was sent by telegram to his sister. Mrs. Karney at 25, Pulteney Road, Bath, with whom Mr. Fielding resided after the death of his mother at that address, about two years ago. But Mrs. Kertey's husband, Canon Karney, who was associated with the Missions to Seamen, became a temporary chaplain in the Navy on board H.M.S. Yarmouth and with Mrs. Karney left Bath some time ago. It was forwarded to Mrs. Karnye by her aunt, Mrs. Cutts, who now resided at 25, Pulteney Road. Mr. Fielding's grand-father and father lived in South america and the deceased officer was born at Buenos Aires, but came to England for his education. He was B.A., and Bachelor of Laws of Cambridge University. The news of his death came as a shock for in letters from him, received by Bath this week Lieutenant Fielding said he was many miles away from the fighting and found things rather slow."

Similar articles exist in the following publications:
Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette 30th October 1915
Clifton Society 4th November 1915

Masonic :

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley
• Website : Province of Somerset List
• Researcher : Tom Hawley