King’s coronation plans announced Plans announced - Buckingham Palace is pleased to announce further details on the ceremonial, celebratory and community events that will take place over the Coronation Weekend between Saturday 6th and Monday 8th May 2023. The Coronation of His Majesty The King and Her Majesty The Queen Consort will take place at Westminster […]

Download the Lodge Information Sheet The new Lodge Information sheet (January 2023 - revision 4) can be downloaded here The Lodge was formed 150 years ago, as a Masonic home for the Brethren passing through the military depot and engineering college at Roorkee in Northern India. Initially nearly all the lodge’s members were drawn from […]

What is Yorkshire Day? Did you know that the 1st August is Yorkshire day? If you did it is also likely that you know that the White rose is the symbol of Yorkshire and the Red rose the symbol for Lancashire? All good so far. Now it is said that Yorkshire Day goes back to […]

Is it a fake? Fake? - Here’s a really interesting take on the subject from former Scotland Yard investigator and Metropolitan Police detective and crime writer David Videcette David writes in his blog: So what makes this particular piece of armour exceptional? This Napoleonic cuirass is pierced right through, front to back, by what appears […]

Freedom of the Falkland Islands to SAM holders The Freedom of the Falkland Islands has been granted to more than 33,000 South Atlantic Medal Holders by the Legislative Assembly of The Falkland Islands. The award encompasses members of the British Army, the Royal Air Force, the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, Merchant Navy, […]

The Army Boxing Finals 2022 Army boxing finals - The Army Boxing Association is hosting the Army Inter Corps, Inter Unit and Individual Boxing Championship Finals 2022 at Combat Sports Centre, Rawlinson Road, Aldershot GU11 2LQ on 6 – 9 June 2022, all boxing will take place in the Combat Sports Centre on the dates given […]

James Bond Stunts Is the James Bond stuntman ex-military? Click the photo below to find out His life seems to have some similarities to that of 007 himself, which is fitting since Torbet worked as Daniel Craig's stuntman on 'No Time To Die' for eight months in 2019, filming in Norway, Jamaica, Italy, Scotland and […]

Military Units So who were the military units that were present at the annual investiture (April 2022)? Can you name them? Were they different? Would you know? So below is a picture of an Officer from one of H.M.’s mounted Regiments. Can you name which Regiment? For an extra point is it the same Regiment […]

Happy birthday to HM the Queen Happy birthday - Queen Elizabeth II is marking her 96th birthday privately today at the Sandringham estate. The Queen is expected to spend the day at the estate’s Wood Farm cottage, a personal sanctuary where she also spent her first Christmas since Philip’s death in April 2021. Philip loved […]