Edward Lloyd Fleming (Ted) was born on 20 January 1925 in Melbourne, Australia. He was the second son of Wilfred Edward Fleming, an ENT surgeon, and his wife Ethel Melba Stirling née Phillips. After attending Carey Baptist Grammar School he finished his education at Wesley College, Melbourne, leaving in 1942. For his last two years he was a member of the school’s air training corps and in 1943 he enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). After preliminary training in Australia, he was posted to the UK and eventually ended up as a pilot flying Lancaster bombers. Shortly before the war ended he joined 550 Squadron based at North Killingholme, Lincolnshire. Hostilities ceased before he and his crew were asked to take part in any bombing raids and, although disappointed at the time, they later realised that they had been lucky to escape considering the high casualty rate suffered by Bomber Command. At the end of the war he returned to Australia aboard the Stirling Castle and was discharged on 16 January 1946. Using the Commonwealth Repatriation Training Scheme, he studied medicine at Mildura and Melbourne. In Melbourne he trained at the Royal Melbourne and Prince Henry’s Hospitals, graduating MB, BS in 1952. He commenced work as a general practitioner in Traralgon, Victoria before travelling to the UK in the late 1950s and passing the fellowship of the college and of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1962. Four years later, in 1966, he returned to Australia and practiced as a general surgeon at the Canberra Hospital. On joining the RAAF Reserve as a senior surgical specialist he worked at RAAF Fairbairn and also served as a locum surgeon at 4 RAAF Hospital, Butterworth. During the Vietnam war he was involved in medical emergency evacuation flights from Vung Tau to Butterworth and Richmond. He retired from the RAAF in 1980 with the rank of Wing Commander, maintaining his commercial pilot licence until 1990. On retirement he enrolled as a volunteer at the Australian War Memorial in 2004, where he worked tirelessly to help those who were searching details of their family member’s service records. He helped to index the nominal rolls of the first world war, the Malayan emergency and the Indonesian confrontation and he also compiled and published an index to the 38 volumes of second world war RAAF fatalities. He retired from the War Memorial on his 95th birthday. In his youth he had been a keen bushwalker and other interests were philately and music. In 1953 he married Barbara Noel née Butterworth and they had two children in Australia before travelling to the UK as a family and having two more. He died on 27 November 2021 aged 96. Barbara and his granddaughter Hannah predeceased him and he was survived by his children Andrea, Bruce, Lloyd and Clare, daughters in law, Jenny and Helen, and grandchildren, Daniel, Guy, Miranda, Isabella, Annabelle and William.