LODGE

The Lodge was founded in 1876. The Lodge Charter was signed by HRH the Prince of Wales and is Home dated 1st February 1896 with the consecration at the Criterian Restaurant on the 9th April 1896. There were 12 Petitioners, all were Royal Engineers, ranked from Lieut. Colonel to C.S.M, the Founders were from the following lodges:- No. 20 Royal Kent Lodge of Antiquity, No.153 Inhabitants (Gibraltar), No. 184 Gillingham Lodge of Benevolence, No. 723 Panmure (Aldershot), No 1174 Pentangle (Kent), No1331 Aldershot Camp, No 1424 Brownrigg Lodge of Unity (Kent), No 2466 Cherrybles (London)... In 1856 the Corps of Royal Engineers combined with the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners forming the Royal Engineers. The Royal Engineers Lodge is not a military Lodge in the sense that Masonic Historians attach to that term, though the lodge was formed by "Royal Engineers" for soldiers in the Corps and approaches as near as makes no difference, to the original concept of Regimental Lodges, save that it..

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