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Rahere Lodge 2546 @RahereLodge

Healthcare Lodge of #Freemasons, member @UGLE_UniScheme & @AMULLfreemasons, consecrated 1895, named for #Rahere founder of #Barts Hospital rahere.org London, England Joined March 2017
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Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2

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Norman Jackson climbed out of a Lancaster bomber onto the wing, in the freezing slipstream, four miles above Germany, to put out an engine fire with a hand extinguisher while the aircraft flew on through the night. It is one of the most physically unbelievable acts of courage in the history of the air war, and the fact that he survived it at all is a miracle. Jackson was a flight engineer, and by April 1944 he had already finished his tour of 30 missions. He did not have to fly again. But his crew still had sorties to complete, and he would not let them go without him, so he volunteered for one more, a raid on Schweinfurt. On the way home a German night fighter tore into them, ripped open the wing, and set the fuel tank ablaze. A wing fire on a bomber full of fuel meant the aircraft would explode within minutes. Everyone aboard knew it. Jackson, already wounded by shell splinters, did the only thing that might save them. He got a fire extinguisher, strapped on his parachute, and had his crewmates feed the rip cord out slowly so his canopy would billow behind him as an anchor. Then he pushed himself out through the hatch into a 200 mile an hour wind and hauled himself out onto the wing of the flying bomber, in the dark, at 20,000 feet, and started fighting the fire by hand. He nearly did it. He got the extinguisher onto the flames and had the fire coming under control. Then the night fighter swung back for another pass and raked the aircraft again. Jackson was hit in the legs, the fire flared back up and burned his hands and face, and he was swept off the wing into the night. His parachute, already burned by the fire, streamed out only partly open and smouldering. And he lived. He fell four miles with a half-burned parachute and hit the ground with a broken ankle, a shattered leg, and terrible burns, but alive. The Germans found him and he spent ten months in hospital before a POW camp, from which he later escaped. His own crew, who bailed out and assumed he was dead, survived to tell what he had done, and that is the only reason the story is known. They gave Norman Jackson the Victoria Cross. He climbed onto the wing of a burning aircraft in flight to save his friends, and then fell out of the sky on fire, and got up and walked away from it.

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Rahere Lodge 2546 @RahereLodge

3 months ago

@SouthWalesMason Looks like a lovely room

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Masonic Charitable Foundation @Masonic_Charity

4 years ago

⚡️Under 25? 👉Child/grandchild of a Freemason? 👩‍🎓 Considering applying for a postgrad full-time course? We might be able to help! Email [email protected] for more info on our postgrad grants #Freemason #Education #Support

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James @TypeForVictory

4 years ago

This is basically the social function of institutions like freemasonry and why they became huge after the wars as people missed the camaraderie. Commitment to meet at regular intervals, be a bit silly, have a good dinner, look out for each other. Still bit among veterans.

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Nix 🕊 @startingfromnix

4 years ago

whenever I see a very close adult friendship group w 5+ people i'm always shocked because friendships are so hard to maintain, much less groups. almost all my friends are individual now

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Rahere Lodge 2546 @RahereLodge

4 years ago

masonicgreatwarproject.org.uk is a very interesting resource for those interested in Masons from their lodges who served in the Great War

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Rahere Lodge 2546 @RahereLodge

4 years ago

Wonderful to see our sister Mark Lodge on here @abernethy569. The only medical Mark Lodge as far as we know! Think about joining the Mark if you're a Master Mason youtu.be/EosrnGTKG6E

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Great St Bartholomew @StBartholomews

7 years ago

"The oldest hospital in Britain is to hire a priest in the ancient role of hospitaller, almost 350 years after the title was abolished. St Bartholomew’s has a parish church — London’s oldest continuous place of worship — within its precincts" thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/s…

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Museum of Freemasonry @MuseumFreemason

8 years ago

Would you like to work with us at the #MuseumFreemasonry? We are expanding our Visitor Services volunteer team and invite applications 🙂 Please see our website for description, policy & application form: buff.ly/2LyMXmI #Museums #museumjobs #volunteering #museummileldn

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Fforest Lodge 2606 @FforestLodge

8 years ago

Interesting Read, thought we would share.

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Rahere Lodge 2546 @RahereLodge

8 years ago

@UGLE_UniScheme @aul357 @NYMC_UK @UGLE_DKW @UGLE_GrandLodge @RSMFreemasons @CollegiateLodge @claygatelodge @SotonUniLodge @IronBridge9897 @OnslowLodge @Grenville1787 @stalphege4095 Looking forward to it enormously. Many thanks for the invitation

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Rahere Lodge 2546 @RahereLodge

9 years ago

@BartsPathology Very interested to hear if the Barts Lodge @RahereLodge gets a mention, which has been home to many of Barts' most illustrious members since 1895

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Rahere Lodge 2546 @RahereLodge

9 years ago

Frank Searle was on cruiser HMS Good Hope which sank with all hands at the Battle of Coronel under heavy fire trying to run down #Scharnhorst on 1.11.1914. Scharnhorst was sunk a month later at the Battle of the Falkland Islands

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Rahere Lodge 2546 @RahereLodge

9 years ago

A very merry Christmas to everyone!

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United Grand Lodge of England @UGLE_GrandLodge

9 years ago

Happy #LancashireDay everybody! Did you know that we have two Provinces in the region?  Find out more about them here → @pglel: bit.ly/eastlancsfreem… @WestLancsPGL: bit.ly/westlancsfreem…

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Rahere Lodge 2546 @RahereLodge

9 years ago

In @FreemasonsHall, the WW1 roll of honour #PoppyAppeal #RemembranceDay

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United Grand Lodge of England @UGLE_GrandLodge

9 years ago

Couldn't make it to the @RoyalAlbertHall? Don't worry – you can still view the Tercentenary event here → bit.ly/2iYonRW #UGLE2017

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Rahere Lodge 2546 @RahereLodge

9 years ago

Working with colleagues on the future of Freemasonry @UGLE_UniScheme Conference at @FreemasonsHall today

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Rahere Lodge 2546 @RahereLodge

9 years ago

George Grossmith (Diary of a Nobody) used Pooter’s ignorance of #Freemasonry to emphasise his shallow social pretensions & outmoded outlook

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