Dugald Swanwick Bannatyne was in the Blucher from 1932. He went up to Pembroke, and became an accountant with Barton Mayhew & Co.

With the outbreak of World War Two, he enlisted in the local Herts & Beds Regiment, before gaining a commission in the Camerons in 1940. He went to the Desert with the Camerons and the Regiment was captured at Tobruk. A Royal Artillery officer was witness to the arrival of 2^nd Camerons to the POW cage:

“We heard, although we could scarcely believe it, the skirl of pipes. There, in the brilliant sunshine, marching down the centre of the road from the escarpment, came a long column of men. The Jerry traffic was brought to a standstill or forced on to the verges. A strange awed murmur went up from the cage: “The Camerons!”

In columns of threes they marched with a swing to the tune of their pipers – ‘The March of The Cameron Men’ – each company led by its company commander, just as though they were on parade. It was a supremely moving sight, although some of us could only see it hazily through our tears.

Even the Jerry sentries sprang to attention as the battalion neared the gates. There, the Camerons halted. Their Colonel reported to the Brigadier, saluted, and dismissed his men, who had held out for twenty-four hours after the surrender order had been issued.”

Bannatyne ended up at P/W Camp No 35 in Italy before being moved on to Oflag VIII and then Oflag 79. Communications were not impossible however, as the Yearbooks for 1942 and 1944 record Speech Day telegrams from Camp 35 and Oflag VIII from Bannatyne and other OWs wishing everyone at College “Speech Day Greetings”, the latter telegram being cosigned by fellow future Lodge member Henry Sherbrooke  and 16 fellow OW PoWs in the same camp.

After liberation in 1945, he completed the war under the cap badge of the Royal Signals, and was prompted Captain. With peace, he rejoined his old firm, becoming an ACA, and later joining Knapp Drewett & Sons Ltd in Surrey. He also spent time working in the USA and in Continental Europe.

He was initiated into the Lodge after the War in 1947, and became Master in 1954.

He is buried at The Chapel, Westhope in Shropshire.

Rex Gordon Hastings Clutton AMIEE was in the Picton from 1928.

Clutton was an Electrical Engineer by profession, who became somewhat of an expert on magnetic fields as they relate to ships.This was crucial war work in the second world war and then became hugely relevant in peacetime with the advent of oil tankers.

He joined the Assistant Superintendent of Degaussing (the process of reducing the magnetic field on ships, see definition) in 1940 from industry where he had been Works Manager of the Siemens-Sohuckert (GB) factories. In 1946 he joined TEE Greenock as Works Manager. He was promoted to PSO in 1951 and transferred to DRPP Admiralty to head a section responsible for providing works, machinery and equipment for the Navy R&D Establishments. He joined Admiralty Oil Lab Cobham in 1970 and became head of Engineering.

Away from work he was a keen sailor, skier and a vintage car racing. He was a founder member and Vice Commodore of the Civil Service Sailing Association and member of the RNSA since 1949.

He was initiated in 1944, and became Master in 1953, and stayed with the Lodge until his death in 1986, some 42 years.

Lt Cmdr Norman William James Lester RNVR was in the Picton from 1915.

He served in the RNVR throughout the Second World War in both the Atlantic and the Pacific, and even managed to play waterpolo for the Royal Navy in 1940.

In peacetime Lester was the owner of the Wellington Hotel in Crowthorne, known to most OWs but now sadly closed. He was a member of the British Olympic Association.

He was initiated into the Lodge in 1937 and became Worshipful Master in 1951. He served the Lodge for 47 years.

Air Commadore North Carter DFC CB was an RAF officer and keen rugby player. He was in the Hill from 1916, and was made Head of House.

He played scrum half for the XV for two years, captaining the XV in 1920. The 1919 Yearbook described him as “A hard working player, getting the ball away well and able to score on his own. Defence good on the whole, but at times uncertain”. That uncertainty clearly went away with experience, as the 1920 Yearbook concluded that he had become “A hard working scrum-half, excellent in defence and strong attacking player. Led the team excellently”.

He went on to a rather fine start to his career with the RAF at Cranwell, where he captained the XV, played for the XI and won the Sword of Honour. His rugby would continue throughout his career at he played for the RAF XV as well.

His career was suitably varied. He flew Bristol F2Bs for No 5 Sqn in 1923, before becoming an engineering officer at RAF Donibristle six years later. He moved to Iraq a year later, before attending Central Flying School in 1932 before being promoted to Flight Commander with No 56 Sqn flying Bulldogs. 1934 saw him flying Wapitis as a Flight Commander with No 60 Sqn in Waziristan in operations connected to the Mohmand operations on the North West Frontier and earning him the DFC.

After RAF Staff College he joined Bomber Command again on the engineering side,  before becoming a Staff Officer with Deputy Directorate of War Organisation in 1938. The Second World War saw Carter as OC RAF Dalcross from 1941 (now better known as Inverness Airport), followed by RAF South Cerney (which wash me to several training and conversion units) and RAF Pocklington, a Wellington and Halifax Bomber Command base. In April 1944 he became Deputy Director of Bomber Operations before taking over as OC RAF Castel Benito, near Tripoli in Libya.

He became Director of Organisation (Forecasting and Planning) in 1946 and AOC and Commandant at RAF Halton and the No 1 School of Technical Training. 1951 he was made Senior Air Staff Officer (SASO) of  No 205 Group, a Heavy Bomber Group in the Eastern Mediterranean. He last job was as Director of Personal Services (Provost Marshal)/Provost Marshal and Chief of RAF Police. Following Retirement from the RAF he became Temporary Administration Officer for the Northern Region of Nigeria, being ‘our man in Kano’, before eventually retiring to Australia in 1963.

Carter was initiated into the Lodge in 1933 and was WM in 1950.

He was a member of the Constitutional Club.

Cecil William Foster went to Wellington in 1914 and was in the Combermere. After Wellington he went up to Clare College, Cambridge before becoming a solicitor.

He was initiated in 1937, before becoming Deputy Worshipful Master in 1949 and taking the chair again as Worshipful Master in 1972. He served the Lodge for 57 years.

Fitzgerald Humphrey Davidson was in the Beresford from 1905. After Wellington he went to Mauritius and worked their until the outbreak of war when he signed up joined the 11th Bttn KRRC, becoming a Captain in 1918.

After the armistice be became a Stockbroker, becoming a partner in Gordon L. Jacob & Co in the City.

Davidson joined the OW Lodge in 1938 and became Worshipful Master in 1946. He was initiated into Royal Colonial Institute Lodge No 3556.

He was a member of the RAC.

Robert Crossman Hodgins, or Robin as he was to his friends, joined the Hill in 1921. After Wellington he qualified as a solicitor, and praised in Godalming and become the Town Clerk. He was a member of the OW Rifle Club.

He served in the Queen’s Regiment, serving as Intelligence Officer 131 Brigade in 1940, before transferring to the Royal Signals, serving in the Second World War, until ill-health forced his retirement in 1943, as a Captain.

He joined the Lodge in 1935, and was Worshipful Master in 1945. He served the Lodge for 42 years.including many years as Secretary. He was initiated into Godalming Lodge No 3811, and in time became a PPAGReg in Surrey for his service. He was also a Founder of Bargate Lodge No 5829.

He was a member of the Army & Navy.

The Right Honorable Charles Patrick Norton, the 2^nd Baron Rathcreedan was in the Benson from 1919. He went up to Lincoln College Oxford, before becoming a solicitor.

He was a territorial officer with the Ox & Bucks LI, rising to the rank of Major. He was with the 4th Bttn that formed part of 145th  Brigade of the BEF in 1939. He was captured as part of the unit’s heroic defence of Mount Cassel, making time for the evacuation of Dunkirk, and furthermore defending their positions to allow the rest of the formation to attempt a breakout. He was a PoW for the remainder of the war.

Rathcreedan was initiated into Apollo University Lodge No 357 whilst at Lincoln. He rose to become Provincial Grand Master of Oxfordshire in 1955. He joined the OW Lodge in 1958 becoming Worshipful Master a year later 1959.

He also joined Bard of Avon Lodge No 778 at Hampton Court, becoming Master in 1946.  He was also a member of Thames Lodge No 1895, the Lodge of Erin No 2895 in London, Middlesex Masters’ Lodge No 3420, and Methuen Lodge No 631 in Marlow.

He joined Westminster and Key-stone Lodge No 10 and was their Master in 1938.

He was a member of Brooks’s.

Major General John Burton Forster CB was born in 1856 and was in the Blucher from 1867 to 1872. He was Colonel of The Royal Irish Regiment and died on June 13 at his home in Bournemouth in his 83rd year.

After Sandhurst he was commissioned in the Royal Irish. As a subaltern he was with the 1st Battalion in the Khyber Line force during the Second Afghan War, 1879—80. Promoted captain in 1881, he commanded a company in the Nile Expedition of 1884—85 when the 1st Royal Irish won [future Honorary member of the Lodge] Lord Wolseley‘s prize for the best passage of the Nile. Captain Forster’s mechanical ability was of particular value during this operation, for he attended personally to the boat repairs, receiving special mention in Lord Wolseley’s congratulatory order.

When the 2nd Battalion joined the Kurram- Kohat Force during the North-West Frontier troubles of 1897—98 he was second-in-command, and succeeded to the command as Lieutenant-Colonel in December 1897. He was promoted Colonel and selected for a staff appointment in India, serving as Assistant Adjutant-General at the Headquarters of the Bengal Command for five years. His next appointment was Brigadier-General commanding the South Irish grouped Regimental Districts which he held from May, 1907, until June, 1908, being promoted Major-General. He went out to India again in 1910, to command the Quetta Brigade of the Southern Army, returning to England in 1913.

After the outbreak of the Great War he was appointed to command the 55th West Lancashire Division of the Territorial Force, and when, towards the end of 1915, the division was broken up preparatory to its reorganization in France, he passed to the command of the 2nd-Line Division. He was retired for age in 1917, and made CB, receiving a special meritorious service pension. In 1918, he became Colonel of the Royal Irish Regiment, which he reviewed in May, 1922, delivering a farewell address, before its disbandment.

He was a Founder of our Lodge, having been initiated into Northern Star Lodge No 1463.

In addition to being a distinguished soldier, he had a considerable reputation as a hunter of big game. He also painted, wrote well on many subjects, was a keen yachtsman, and was possessed of considerable mechanical ability.