It’s been a while since we completed a biography of a forgotten World War One war hero. These are members who are not listed in the Lodge Temperance WW1 Roll of Honour although the Lodge registers show they were on war service.
Francis William Dove was initiated into freemasonry in 1917 at the age of 30 and was a Quartermaster Sergeant with the Royal Flying Corp living at 14, Loraine Place, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
He was a member of the Plymouth Brethren, a conservative, low church, nonconformist, Evangelical Christian movement and by 1939 was a minister of an independent Evangelical church in Yorkshire. His letter of resignation in 1922 makes it clear he believes Freemasonry is not of God and best left alone.
You can read his biography here.
There are about twenty more biographies to complete so keep checking back for all the latest from Lodge Temperance 2557.
