Per Mare Per Terram Lodge No. 9355 shows that age is no problem – Provincial Grand Lodge of Devonshire
W.Bro. George Tumbridge joined the Home Guard at the age of 16 and in 1942 he was called into the Army and was posted to the Royal Armoured Corps as a Driver/Signals Operator. In 1944 he volunteered to join the 6th Airborne Armoured Regiment, and trained on light tanks to be transported in Gliders.