Masons in The War

[KIRKY]

I was talking to a friend who lives in USA.

He told me that he recently went to a Freemasons meeting where they reconstructed an event which was supposed to have occured in WW1 on the battlefield in he thinks 1916 where Masons from UK, Germany and France deciced to hold a ceasefire in order to collect wounded.

Has anybody ever heard of this before??

[Guest Ian Bowbrick]

Can't answer your question but I do know that the Masons in the UK issued their own WW1 war medal to all masons who had served.

Ian

[Guest stevebec]

I don't see how you could co-ordinate this arrangment between three countries soldiers like French, Britis and Germans to do this.

Only at some level of command would it be possible and then would they all be mason's?

It was hard enough to do (ceasefires) between two of these countries.

After the Battle of Fromells the Germans requested a ceasefire to enable the allies (Brits and aussies) to remove there wounded and dead. The commander of the aussie 5th Division refused and many more men died needlesly.

S.B