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The report was adopted, but was never acted on.
There is something to be said for the proposal; members will recall an
occasion, not so very long ago, when our visitors were embarrassed by the
discussion in their presence of the cost of the dinner with which they were
about to be regaled!
12 March 1907. An inscribed cigarette case was presented to Bro. F. Marshall
Swindells, submanager of the Grand Hotel, in recognition of his services to the
Lodge.
16 May 1911. Resolved unanimously
That this Emergency Lodge of the Nine Muses held in anticipation of the
Coronation of King George V (fixed for June 22d) hereby expresses its devoted
loyalty to His Most Gracious Majesty and with reverence invokes the blessing
of the Great Architect of the Universe upon him during what it is hoped may
prove a long happy and glorious reign.
5 February 1916. Reported; Bros. Major S. M. Tahourdin, P.D.G. W., Bengal,
on active service Mesopotamia; Capt. Cohen still at the front in France, and
Slater, recently in France, invalided home. Members upstanding did honour to
these and other Masonic Brethren engaged on active service.
No reference will be found to the services of present members of the Lodge
during the war of 1914-18; this is in accordance with their wish.
No member actually lost his life during the war. Bros. Tahourdin and
Etlinger died in 1915 and 1916 respectively of wounds received in action, but
both had resigned membership within the two years before 1914 on taking up
appointments in India. Bro. Hennell, W.M. 1926, was permanently injured, and
died after much ill-health and suffering in 1929.
[14 February 1922] The W.M. [Bro. Forster] in announcing the retirement
of Bro. Webb, owing to continued ill-health, from the office of Secretary, said
he felt sure that the members would desire to put on record their grateful
appreciation of his invaluable services to the Lodge, of which, for more than
two generations, he had been the pillar and mainstay.
A motion expressing regret was carried “with enthusiasm”.
At the next meeting on 14 March,