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White Ensign to Maastricht
The Worshipful Master, W.Bro. Glyn Cardy, together with Lodge Membership Officer, W.Bro. Les Leek will be travelling to Maastricht,
Holland on Friday 1st July at the invitation of one of our Reserve Squadron Members, W.Bro. Gordon Hewitt who is the Senior Past Master of General John J Pershing Lodge No 307, a British military lodge in Maastricht. They will be travelling on the Eurotunnel with another Reserve Squadron Member, W.Bro. Jim Crawford of the Knights of Malta Lodge No. 50, and a joining member of White Ensign, Bro. Bobby Singh Gill.
The General John J Pershing Lodge has its Installation Meeting on Saturday 2nd July in splendid surroundings in Maastricht followed by a magnificent Dutch banquet where all the lodge ladies and partners are always invited.
An upgraded Apron
The last regular meeting at White Ensign Lodge before the summer break was held on Friday 27th May and it was at this meeting there was a third degree ceremony. At this ceremony, Bro. Steve Barraclough was raised to the sublime degree of a Master Mason. Presiding was our Worshipful Master W.Bro. WO1 Glyn Cardy with assistance of Past Masters, W.Bro. Sgt Ian Fothergill and W.Bro. David Crump. The ceremony was concluded by a superb delivery of the ‘Walking Charge’ by a visitor to the lodge, Bro. Mike Powers.
The evening was concluded by the Festive Board, at which our WM presented White Ensign lodge Reservists Pins and Certificates to both W.Bro. Gordon Hewitt and Bro. Mike Powers.
A long time in the making
On a dark Friday evening at the end of March 2022, Bro. Paul Tuckley was finally raised to the sublime degree of a Master Mason at White Ensign, having been originally initiated into Freemasonry back in May 2019. As COVID-19 gripped the UK in early 2020 and the national lockdowns took hold in the March; Freemasonry was also put into suspension by UGLE. By the summer of 2021 the lockdowns had ceased and Freemason’s were able to meet again in our lodges etc. Bro. Paul was now going for the record at White Ensign for having been the longest serving Entered Apprentice at some 29 months. At our first regular meeting held at White Ensign at the end of October 2021, both Bro. Paul and Bro. Steve Barraclough were passed to the second degree, the Fellowcraft.
