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Tracings Boards Of Lodge, No. 262,
were evidently understood and appreciated at head-quarters , for the certificates were despatched the next day . We learn nothing more of the affairs of the lodge until December 13 th , 1816 , when a letter was written to the Grand Secretary by the W . M ., Richard Aircl , Riding Master , the
regiment being then at Cassel under the name of the 7 th Hussars , where the writer savs thev expect to be settled for a few months . Meanwhile Waterloo , in which the light cavalry had played a conspicuous part , had been fought and won , and it might naturally be supposed , considering the
character of the campaign , both before and immediately after that great event , that military Masonry had , for the timebeing , necessarily fallen into abeyance . This , however , appears not to have been at till the case with the lodge under consideration . In a list of 28 members which accompanied the letter last mentioned , Sergeant-Major Joseph Pegler is
jVy . : l . —Oi'ii / illiil Size , 2 ~> ill . Inj Kt in . returned as having been initiated on the 9 th June , 1813 , and Adam Taite , Private , as having joined the lodge on the 27 th of the same month , the one nine clays before and the other nine clays after Waterloo . In the same list , appended to the
name of Japtha Keeling , Private , is the significant note , ' . ' Killed in action , Waterloo . " In June , 1818 , the regiment was still at Cassell , and the lodge appears to have been fairly prosperous while there ; but on July 5 th , 1820 , Bro . Aircl , who still presided over the lodge , in a letter to the Grand Secretary , from Hamilton , N . B ., apologises for not having
t / .. l . —Oriiiiiinl Size . Win . I , ;/ \ li „ . transmitted a return before , the reason being that they had not had a full meeting of the lodge since December , r 8 i 8 , owing to the very scattered state of the regiment . " He , however , sends a list of twenty-four members and £ 3 4 s . fid .
as Grand Lodge clues . Unhappily for the well-being -and stability of the lodge , ten of the members are marked as " Discharged" and eight of this number as " not payed since the last return . "
In January , 1822 , the regiment was in Dublin , whence a letter was received from the Master asking for twelve certificates and enclosing Grand Lodge fees to the amount of A ' 13 8 s . From this period may be dated the decline of the lodge . In August , 1823 , the Grand Secretary was notified
that the regiment , was again at Brighton , and that the loss of members had brought the lodge down to a very low condition . In October , 1824 , a letter was received from Hounslow Barracks by the Grand Secretary , in which the writer ( Sergeant Edward Cotton ) says : —" The few members
who have supported the Lodge while in its tottering state have formed a resolution to send the Box and Jewels , with other matters appertaining to it , or belonging to the Lodge , for your disposal , and it is their wish that whatever the articles may bring , to see it given ( by receipt ) to the Orphan
Fund . Those matters shall be sent free of expen . ee , and your better judgement will form their disposal . " Thus ended the career of the first and only lodge in the 7 th Hussars , which , during its somewhat brief life-time , was certainly as well conducted as any lodge in the British Army .
Its final act as a lodge was highly creditable to the members , evincing as it . did a warm regard for that greatest of all Masonic virtues—Charily . HENRY SADLER .
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Tracings Boards Of Lodge, No. 262,
were evidently understood and appreciated at head-quarters , for the certificates were despatched the next day . We learn nothing more of the affairs of the lodge until December 13 th , 1816 , when a letter was written to the Grand Secretary by the W . M ., Richard Aircl , Riding Master , the
regiment being then at Cassel under the name of the 7 th Hussars , where the writer savs thev expect to be settled for a few months . Meanwhile Waterloo , in which the light cavalry had played a conspicuous part , had been fought and won , and it might naturally be supposed , considering the
character of the campaign , both before and immediately after that great event , that military Masonry had , for the timebeing , necessarily fallen into abeyance . This , however , appears not to have been at till the case with the lodge under consideration . In a list of 28 members which accompanied the letter last mentioned , Sergeant-Major Joseph Pegler is
jVy . : l . —Oi'ii / illiil Size , 2 ~> ill . Inj Kt in . returned as having been initiated on the 9 th June , 1813 , and Adam Taite , Private , as having joined the lodge on the 27 th of the same month , the one nine clays before and the other nine clays after Waterloo . In the same list , appended to the
name of Japtha Keeling , Private , is the significant note , ' . ' Killed in action , Waterloo . " In June , 1818 , the regiment was still at Cassell , and the lodge appears to have been fairly prosperous while there ; but on July 5 th , 1820 , Bro . Aircl , who still presided over the lodge , in a letter to the Grand Secretary , from Hamilton , N . B ., apologises for not having
t / .. l . —Oriiiiiinl Size . Win . I , ;/ \ li „ . transmitted a return before , the reason being that they had not had a full meeting of the lodge since December , r 8 i 8 , owing to the very scattered state of the regiment . " He , however , sends a list of twenty-four members and £ 3 4 s . fid .
as Grand Lodge clues . Unhappily for the well-being -and stability of the lodge , ten of the members are marked as " Discharged" and eight of this number as " not payed since the last return . "
In January , 1822 , the regiment was in Dublin , whence a letter was received from the Master asking for twelve certificates and enclosing Grand Lodge fees to the amount of A ' 13 8 s . From this period may be dated the decline of the lodge . In August , 1823 , the Grand Secretary was notified
that the regiment , was again at Brighton , and that the loss of members had brought the lodge down to a very low condition . In October , 1824 , a letter was received from Hounslow Barracks by the Grand Secretary , in which the writer ( Sergeant Edward Cotton ) says : —" The few members
who have supported the Lodge while in its tottering state have formed a resolution to send the Box and Jewels , with other matters appertaining to it , or belonging to the Lodge , for your disposal , and it is their wish that whatever the articles may bring , to see it given ( by receipt ) to the Orphan
Fund . Those matters shall be sent free of expen . ee , and your better judgement will form their disposal . " Thus ended the career of the first and only lodge in the 7 th Hussars , which , during its somewhat brief life-time , was certainly as well conducted as any lodge in the British Army .
Its final act as a lodge was highly creditable to the members , evincing as it . did a warm regard for that greatest of all Masonic virtues—Charily . HENRY SADLER .
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