Royal Marines Commando Veteran Tom Bodell awarded the Légion d’honneur.
Tom receiving France’s highest military honour from James Ryeland the French Honorary Consul at Dover 92-year-old Tom Bodell, from Dover, has been…
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Freemasons donate £450 to Royal British Legion in Dover
Major Pat O’Riley (left) receives the donation from Colin Hurst” The Military Jubilee Lodge No 2195 in Dover recently held a so-called “Blue…
50 Years of Masonic Twinning with France & Germany
On 25th November a delegation of 4 Brethren from St Paul’s Lodge No 43 flew off to Lyon to a weekend of social activities and a Lodge meeting to…
Dorset Freemasons make Donation to Poole disability charity
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The “Free” In Freemasonry
WHY IS IT THAT OUR Fraternity bears the name “Freemasonry” instead of “Masonry”? Why the “free” in it? Far back in the Middle Ages a freemason was the name of a builder who could design buildings as well as construct them. He was what we should now call an architect.
MOZART AND THE AUSTRIAN FREEMASONS by W.Bro. Martin I.McGregor
Born in Salzburg on 27th January 1756, he was baptized the following day at St. Ruperts Cathedral as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. Theophilus means ‘beloved of God’ and Mozart later used the Latin form Amadeus, -stylized sometimes as Amade or Amadeo- or the German form Gottlieb. His father, Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was born in Augsburg in Bavaria, where the Mozart family can be traced back to the 14thCentury
Freemason Walter Greenwood receives Legion d’Honneur Medal for role in liberating France during Second World War
W Bro Walter Greenwood, a Past Master of Commercial Lodge No. 1391 which meets in Leicester, has recently received the Legion d’Honneur Medal presented by the French Government for his contribution to the liberation of France during the Second World War
The Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur is the highest French order for military merit, established 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte.
King Camp Gillette – Freemason & Innovator
Gillette was born on January 5th, 1855 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He was later raised in Chicago, Illinois with his entire family surviving the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 when he was 16.
Worcestershire Freemason honoured with Legion d`Honneur for his service to France during the Second World War
The Legion d’Honneur is the highest French order for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napolean Bonaparte.
Atheism and Freemasonry by Bro. Joshua L. Rubin
There is a universal Masonic requirement of belief in Deity, which is followed by all regular Grand Lodges of the world. As Entered Apprentices, receiving Light for the first time, Masons are cautioned that no Atheist may be made a Mason