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MASTERS PIECE

8th June 2016

In the olden time it was no easy matter for a man to become a Freemason. He had to win the right by hard work, technical skill, and personal worth

JOSEPH WARREN MARTYR OF BUNKER HILL

8th June 2016

He Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, 17 June, 1775

n a quiet summer afternoon about 230 years ago, some Harvard College students shut themselves in an upper dormitory room to arrange some affairs pertaining to their class. Another class member desired to be with them – knowing they intended to thwart some fondly cherished purpose of his own. They refused to admit him; the door was closed, and he could not gain admittance without violence, which he chose to avoid.

Dorset Masters’ Lodge attend Regular Meeting of the New Forest Lodge of Installed Masters, no.9665

8th June 2016

Worshipful Master of Dorset Masters’ Lodge, Clive Deakin accompanied by Terry Case, their Charity Steward, attended a particularly enjoyable Regular Meeting of the New Forest Lodge of Installed Masters, no.9665. In attendance was Geoffrey Tuck, Assistant Provincial Grand Master of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Hampshire & Isle of Wight accompanied by Officers of that Province.

Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874 – 1922)

7th June 2016

Sir Ernest Shackleton was initiated in Navy Lodge No. 2612, London, on 9th July, 1901,

passed on 2nd November, 1911, and raised on 30th May, 1913

He was also a member of the Guild of Freeman Lodge No. 3525

Fraternity in the trenches

15th June 20167th June 2016

The Battle of the Somme produced more than one million casualties. Director of the Library and Museum of Freemasonry Diane Clements marks the masons who fought for freedom

The centenary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916 will be marked this summer. On that single day there were almost 60,000 British casualties, most of them before noon, of whom nearly 20,000 died.