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Honour Board - Loyal Orange Institution 1916

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Large Honour Roll of numerous Lodges of the Loyal Orange Institution in Western Australia. Records members serving.

Historical information

The Loyal Orange Institution, commonly known as the Orange Order, is an international Protestant fraternal order based in Northern Ireland. The Orange Order was founded in County Armagh in 1795, during a period of Protestant–Catholic sectarian conflict, as a Masonic-style fraternity sworn to maintain the Protestant Ascendancy. It arrived in Australia through military Lodges in the 1830s and by mid-century had spread across the country as one aspect of sectarian division in Australia.

The 1916 date on the large Honour Board (previous page) of the Loyal Orange Institution is a reference not Irish loyalty following the Easter Rising in Dublin but the record of 36 (Ulster) Division at the Battle of the Somme. One of the few formations to achieve its opening day objectives, the Division suffered 5,500 casualties, killed, wounded, or missing. Four of the nine Victoria Crosses awarded in the first days of the battle were awarded to 36 Division soldiers.

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cwa-org-32-99.202

Contextual Information

Fraternities or lodges were an important part of Australian society in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. After World War 2, they were gradually replaced by "service clubs", such as Lions, Apex and Rotary. By the end of the 20th century, most fraternities had been wound up except for the Freemasons and a few lodges of the Buffaloes. Friendly Societies, benevolent fraternal organizations, based around local lodges for the purpose of providing altruistic social and charitable services also fall within this category.
Many fraternities also offered insurance to their members and as membership declined, these operations were either combined with other non-profit insurance companies or sold with the proceeds being distributed to charitable causes. The Australian Army Museum of Western Australia retains an echo of the spirit of these passed entities through several Honour Boards in its collection. Ranging from wall size to modest tablets, these Honour Boards record the service of Lodge members who extended their values of fraternity and comradeship to military service and sacrifice in times of Australian peril.

The service details of those commemorated on this Honour Roll are contained in Memorial Volumes adjacent to the Honour Roll.

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