[1][4] He was a fine all-round athlete and took part in figure skating competitions, winning trophies at Davos Platz in 1893.
and was capped once for England, in the 1887 Home Nations Championship game against Wales at Llanelli, a match that finished in a 0–0 draw after a frozen pitch at Stradey Park had led to the match being played on the cricket pitch next to the ground.
[1][7] In club cricket Le Fleming played for Tonbridge for whom he made "many runs", including a score of 228 in 1889.
At 49 years old he was beyond the age for frontline service, but volunteered to join the Territorial Force in early 1915, being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3/1st Kent Cyclist Battalion in May 1915.
He spent much of the war in training positions at Crowborough and Tunbridge Wells, reaching the rank of acting Major in the 4th Battalion the Royal West Kent Regiment, a reserve formation.
[14][15] Le Fleming married Ethel Hall, the daughter of a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Indian Army, in 1891.
[17][18] The youngest, Roger Eustace, attended Sandhurst and served in France in 1915 with the 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment, fighting at Hill 60 and Second Ypres, before transferring to 102nd Prince of Wales's Own Grenadiers, an Indian Army unit, with whom he fought in Mesopotamia and Palestine and then, in 1919–1920, Somaliland.
[21] Four of Le Fleming's five brothers also served in the military during the Great War, Lawrence being killed in action in France in March 1918.