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Hazara Lodge member Hayder Rothschild Hoozeer wins a BAFTA for his production of the short film titled “Rock Paper Scissors”. All the members of Hazara Lodge are immensely proud of Hayder’s amazing achievement and his work in brining the true story to the screen. “Based on a true story – A father and son running a makeshift hospital on the...

Our centenary was due to take place on the 16th October 2020 but due to covid it couldn’t take place. Hopefully we will be able to celebrate in 2022 when life returns back to normal.

Warrant was granted with the date of 1st July 1920

The Deputy Grand Master invested W Bro. Frederick Henry Smyth PAGDC with The Grand Master’s Order of Service to Masonry. The citation read: “Bro. Frederick Smyth was made a Mason at the age of 23, 60 years ago, in May 1943, in Lodge Devon No. 1999 in the District of the Punjab, as it then was. His Masonic career was somewhat...

Awards & Titles: Victoria Cross Lance-Sergeant (1915). Lieutenant, Surbiton (1916). Citations & Commemorations : On the early morning of 13th May, 1915, when in charge of a portion of an advanced breastwork south of the Wieltje-St. Julien Road during a very fierce and continuous bombardment by the enemy, which frequently blew in the breastwork, Lance-Serjeant Belcher with a mere handful...

The Founding Junior Warden, Captain D. W. Belcher. V. C., rejoined in February and was elected Master in April. When installed in June. there was the astonishing number of fifty visitors to support the nineteen members. Major-General R. I. Jones rejoined the Lodge.

Bro. Jim Gregory was installed by W.Bro. Briggs with the aid of three visiting Past Masters and a ruling Master. At the February meeting, the District Grand Master came and told the seven members present that he had recommended the removal of the Lodge to England. One last Candidate was initiated in April by W.Bro. Briggs (the Worshipful Master had...

Of course, postings away offset the postings in and the Installation this year was remarkable in that Fellow Crafts were invested as Secretary and Organist and an Entered Apprentice as Almoner. They were, naturally, advanced as quickly as possible. With the end of the War, attendances dwindled, and the future of the Lodge and the Masonic Hall became a problem. It...

At last matters began to improve and more Brethren (including such stalwarts as the Deputy District Grand Master, Colonel V. C. Alderson, Lt.-Col. Claude Parker and the Garrison Chaplain, Brother Harold Saunders) were posted to Abbottabad or Kakul and reinforced the membership of Hazara. Candidates came forward/or initiation and there was a spate of ceremonial work.

Five members and two visitors opened the Lodge for the Installation in January. The new Master appointed and invested only his Wardens; the other offices were left vacant pro tern. Then the Master was called away on duty and his predecessor (W.Bro. Colonel le Marchand) found himself acting as Master, Treasurer and Secretary. But, later in the year, some new...