9th Infantry Brigade Masonic Lodge Brethren in the AIF
3077 NSW Masons who saw active service in the in the the Great War 1914 - 1919.
Private: 2028 Alfred Miller Connovy ALDERTON. 36th-33rd Battalion.
Captain: Benjamin Greenup BRODIE. 34th Battalion. COOLAMON LODGE No: 263.
Private: 728 William Ralph CARR. 34th Battalion. NEW LAMBTON LODGE No: 515.
Regimental Sergeant Major: WOI: 43 John James CROSS. 34th Battalion.
Private: 2915 Frederick James DEARING. 35th Battalion. PIONEER LODGE No:30
Lieutenant: Percy Muir DUN. M.C. and Bar. M.M. 35th Battalion.
Sergeant: Eugene Schuyler EARLE. PRIDE OF ARMIDALE LODGE No: 135.
Private: 1813 Alfred EGAN. 35th Battalion. "Grand Order of ODDFELLOWS. Newcastle Branch No: 1086"
Lieutenant: Alfred Gordon FARLEIGH MC MID. 33rd Battalion. LODGE PRINCE ALFRED No: 94
Private: 426 John Joseph FARRELL. 34th Battalion. "Grand Order of ODDFELLOWS. Newcastle Branch No: 1086"
Acting Sergeant: 3105A William Scott Murray FINDLAY. 35th Battalion. "Grand Order of ODDFELLOWS"
Private: 3304 Frank William GIBSON. 34th Battalion. "LODGE TEMORA No:97"
Extra Regimental Corporal: 1410 Corporal Leslie James GRIERSON. 35th Battalion. "LODGE FIDELITY No:163"
Sergeant: 1162 Cyril Redford HANCOCK. 33rd Battalion. WW1 8th Garrison Battalion WW2.
Private: 2188 James HEFNER. 35th Battalion. Grand United Order of Free Gardeners of Australasia, "LODGE ROYAL OAK No:9"
Private: 786 Henry (Clem) HILL. 36th Battalion.
Lieutenant Colonel. Grantley Andrew Hillier HOLBOROW. 35th Battalion.
Private: 1983 Alan James MATHER. 33rd Battalion.
Private: 2127 Francis Xavior PLATT. 35th Battalion. Grand United Order of Free Gardeners of Australasia, "LODGE ROYAL OAK No:9"
Private: 538 Frederick PRICE. 36th Battalion.
Major: Clifford Russell RICHARDSON. 2nd Battalion - 33rd Battalion LODGE UNITY No. 6
Private: 12059 Burton Disney RUTHERFORD. 9th Australian Field Ambulance. LODGE LIGHTIN TIRHOOT No: 1998, Mazufferpore, Bengal, India.
Extra Regimental Sergeant: 2155 Herbert Harris SHAW. Kings Colonial Imperial Yeomanry. 35th Battalion.
Private: 1238 Abraham Parker SLATER. 35th Battalion. Newcastle Lodge of MARK MASTER MASONS, No:15, and the Newcastle ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER, N.S.W., No:11.
Lieutenant: 3132 Harold Steinfeld SUSMAN. 33rd Battalion.
Corporal: 1244 Robert Charles THURSTON. 34th Battalion. PROTESTANT ALLIANCE Lodge No. 42
Private: 1275 John Harold WILLIAMS. MM 35th Battalion.
Private: 1271 Oliver John WRIGHT. + 35th Battalion.
King's Colonials Lodge. The Kings Colonial Imperial Yeomanry. The Regiment was disbanded in March 1924, and both it and its comrades' association have ceased to exist. However, in 1909 the Regiment officially sanctioned and formed a regimental masonic lodge, the King's Colonials Lodge No 3386, in London. As the number of surviving members of the closed regiment dwindled, they opened membership of the regimental Lodge to all interested persons, and passed all regimental traditions to the Lodge. The Worshipful Master of the Lodge has an official entitlement to wear the regimental tie (now the only living person with that entitlement), and the Lodge became the custodians of all regimental property, including regimental silver valued at many thousands of pounds. The Lodge continues to function, and to maintain regimental traditions. The regimental property is stored by the Lodge in a secure vault at Haileybury College. The Lodge continues to tend regimental graves, and to lay wreaths at the regimental memorials in London and France.
Australian Squadron, Kings Colonial Imperial Yeomanry. 1902-1907.
(Photo; courtesy Peter Nemaric. 2013)
Grand United Order of Free Gardeners
Private: 2188 James HEFNER. 35th Battalion AIF
Grand United Order of Oddfellow, Newcastle Branch 1086
The memorial is a simply designed timber roll of honour. It has a carved pediment at the top with a gold painted scroll decorating the board header. The names of 10 veterans who served in the First World War from the Bingara Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows (M.U.I.O.O.F.) Lodge are listed below in gold lettering. A gold letter 'K' denotes three veterans who lost their lives.
The Loyal Rose of Bingara Lodge No 160 of the M.U.I.O.O.F. was established by March 1897. The Bingara M.U.I.O.O.F. constructed an Oddfellows Hall after permission was granted by The Grand Annual Movable Committee of the Manchester Unity Lodges in May 1901 (The South Coast Times, 11 May 1901). The roll of honour would have been dedicated in the hall for those who enlisted in the First World War. The date of the unveiling is unknown.
The memorial is now located in the Bingara Historical Society Museum and is available for viewing during museum opening hours or by appointment.
Private: 2299. Albert Edward Joseph DAVIS. 33rd Battalion AIF. The Loyal Rose of Bingara Lodge No:160.
Private: 412 Edward John FENSOM. 33rd Battalion AIF. The Loyal Rose of Bingara Lodge No:160.
Lance Corporal: 441 George David HUNT. 33rd Battalion AIF. The Loyal Rose of Bingara Lodge No:160.
Private: 491 Francis James McDERMOTT. 33rd Battalion AIF. The Loyal Rose of Bingara Lodge No:160.
Corporal: 497 Joseph Peter McDERMOTT. 33rd Battalion AIF. The Loyal Rose of Bingara Lodge No:160.
The Pride of Clybucca Lodge, Grand United Order of Oddfellows.
Private: 2539 Leonard Sydney CROSSINGHAM. Pride of Clybucca Lodge No:630
Under Construction 16/02/2010-11/01/2024.