W. Bro. Revd. David T. Youngson, PPAG Chaplain, Northumberland offers the following:
The information given below in respect of some of the brethren is the best possible conclusions from Lodge records, Grand Lodge records & Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
240 St Hilda’s Lodge
Year of Warrant 1780
Freemasons Hall, South Shields
411087 Pte PARLETT Arthur Edgar
Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
(Eastern Ontario Regiment)
The son of William Bass Parlett and Olive Elizabeth Parlett of South Shields. He was Initiated on the 8th July 1912 when his age was given as 22. There is no record of any further advancement.
He died of wound on the 19th February 1916 aged 26 and is buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France Grave Ref: II.C.156
Editor’s Note:
There are some small discrepancies of data in respect of CWGC, Lodge Records and the Canadian Roll of Honour but what is stated above is an amalgam of all three affording an accurate account.
He is remembered at Harton on H104.06
