Group of Founders of Comrades Lodge

These 'Brothers in Arms' came from all corners of the United Kingdom and served in every quarter of the British Empire in different Corps & Regiments, but came together for one specific moment in time in 1903. The Founders of 'The Comrades Lodge' are listed :
  1. Bro. Capt. Bertram Edward Essex (b. 1861 - d. 15th December 1912)
  2. Bro. Major George Waterman (b.1851 - d. 7th August 1907)
  3. Bro. William Michael Roddy (b. September 1859 - d. 12th May 1926)
  4. Bro. William Lorraine (b.30th January 1860 – d. 14 January 1928)
  5. Bro. Ralph Crossland Taylor (b. Q4 1856 – d. 17th September 1930)
  6. Bro. George Reid
  7. Bro. Alfred Henry Rowlinson (b.12th November 1864 - d.)
  8. Bro. Arthur James Griffin (b.1870 – d.April 1941)
  9. Bro. Arthur Thomas Walstow DCM (b. January 1866 – d.27th March 1936)
  10. Bro. Thomas Adamson (b.1856 – d.12th December 1910)
  11. Bro. Major George Joseph Burridge (b.1869 – 1960)
  12. Bro. Alfred Thomas Mears
  13. Bro. William Wallace Welsh (b. d.7th June 1954)
  14. Bro. Capt. Capon Henry Preston (b.1840 – d.25th January 1919)
  15. Bro. John Bilton
  16. Bro. George Hare Lister (b. c.October 1858 – d.21st January 1930)
  17. Bro. John A. Wilson (b.1865 – d.)
  18. Bro. Arthur William Bond (b.1855 d. 5th November 1923)
  19. Bro. John James Beard Rampton (b.1865 - d.3rd January 1946)
  20. Bro. Frederick James Charles Bowstead (b. 3rd August 1865 – d.Dec 1942)
  21. Bro. Amos Halls (b.c.1865 – d.24th January 1954)
  22. Bro. Edgar George Woolnough (b.1867 - d. 18th June 1939)
  23. Bro. Alfred Mitchell (b. c.1862. d.)
  24. Bro. Richard Dalton Simms (b.1859-d.1943)
  25. Bro. James Blackmore (b. 1858 – d.)