Arthur James Terence Fleming-Sandes was born at Tulse Hill Park, London on 24 June 1894. He was educated at Dulwich Prep School and King’s Canterbury. When war broke out in 1914 he enlisted in the Artist’s Rifles and went with them to France. On 9 May 1915 he was commissioned into the 2nd Battalion the East Surreys. On 29 Sep 1915, at the Hohenzollern Redoubt, Fleming-Sandes was sent to command a company which was in a very critical position. His men, very much shaken by continual bombing and machine-gun fire were beginning to retire, but 2nd Lt Fleming-Sandes collected a few bombs, jumped up onto the parapet and threw them at the Germans only 20 yards away. Although severely wounded almost at once, he continued to advance and throw bombs until he was wounded again. This act of courage put new heart into the men and the situation was saved.
His award was gazetted on 18 Nov 1915. By the end of the war he was a lieutenant and left the army to live and work in the Sudan. In 1919 he joined the educational department there, and in 1924 moved to the political department. He was appointed a judge of the Sudan High Court and from 1942 was Judge Advocate-General of the Sudan Defence Force. He retired in 1944 and returned to England. In 1936, whilst in the Sudan, he married Dorothea May Weeks and they lived at Romsey in Hampshire. His last job was chairman of the Pensions Appeal Tribunal, until 1948. He died on 24 May 1961.
