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.
2418 Hedworth Lodge
Year of Warrant 1891
Freemasons Hall Ingram Street South Shields
Temporary 2nd Lieutenant Archibald Straughan CLARK (Some Records show him as Strachan or Strachen)
The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) 13th Battalion
A Butcher, he was Initiated on the 29th August 1912; Passed 24th October 1912 and Raised on the 27th December 1912. He was killed in action on the 8th October 1918 aged 33 and is buried in Forenville Military Cemetery, Nord, France Grave Reference A.1. >
He is remembered on the Roll of Honour in the Freemasons’ Hall in London, See County Durham Notes
He is also remembered at South Shields on S86.027 and in S86.086 page 3
On S86.027 the letter E has been added to the surname.
