1929/26
Regalia Collection - Worcestershire Museum of Freemasonry
Collar Dutch, Willem van Oranje Lodge No. 118 NC - now No. 3976 EC
WMLMT Classification:- Collar
Country of Origin:- England
Province/Region/District:- Metropolitan Grand Lodge London - United Grand Lodge of England
Associated Unit (Lodge/Chapter Etc.):- Willem van Oranje Lodge No.3976
Order:- Craft (Blue Masonry)
Description
The Lodge was originally formed by Naval, Military and Civilian brethren interned in Holland under the Hague Convention of August 1917, who had been Prisoners of War in Germany. It was consecrated in July 1981, No.118 under the jurisdiction of the Grand Orient of the Netherlands. The Lodge name was chosen in memory of the famous Dutch Prince and Freemason, afterwards King of England, in recognition of the hospitality afforded to British Freemasons by their Dutch Brethren, without whose fraternal co-operation and sympathetic help the Lodge could not have existed; and as a further binding link between the two great Masonic Powers.
