Commemorated:

1. Memorial:Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Flanders
2. Book:The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918Pg.119
3. Memorial:The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour21C GQS
    

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Service Life:

Campaigns:

Unit / Ship / Est.: 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) 

Action : The Battles of Ypres 1915 (Second Ypres) 

22 April - 25 May 1915. On the 22nd April 1915 the Germans used poison gas at Ypres. This was the first 'official' use of gas and took the Allies by surprise. After initial success capitalising on the confusion and horror of this weapon, a heroic stand, initially by the Canadians and then supported by British and Indian Battalions, held the German advance. However it became clear that the Germans had achieved a tactical advantage and eventually the British were forced to retire to more a more defendable perimeter closer to Ypres. These positions were on the last ridges before Ypres and their loss would have resulted in the loss of the town and possibly open the Channel coast to German occupation with disastrous consequences for the re-supply of the BEF.

Masonic :

TypeLodge Name and No.Province/District :
Mother : Aldershot Camp No. 1331 E.C.Hampshire & IOW
Joined : Unity and Progress No. 3723 E.C. London

Initiated
Passed
Raised
12th March 1913
9th April 1913
14th May 1913
 

Petitioning and founder member of the Unity and Progress Lodge No. 3723 at its consecration on 27th April 1914. War Service is recorded in the register of the lodge, ended by "Killed in Action 13th May 1915."


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