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   .... the Orange Ludge and 'bauns'

...a social history of Glesca's East end

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Orange Lodge from the West Coast of Africa
'Lagos Fine Blues Loyal Orange Lodge'
'No Surrender'

This photo was sent to me by a GlescaPal now residing in Teeside, England.

Feb.2007. An Orangeman from London wrote to me " I was surprised and delighted to see the picture of the "Lagos Fine Blues" on your web-site. This is tremendously historic as they were the first Orange Lodge in Africa founded in 1916 in Nigeria, I have never seen a picture of them anywhere else before - it is possibly unique.  I have been an Orangeman for 21 years in London and it is nice to see our history shown. Our Lodge is twinned with the Accra Heroes of Peace LOL No.3 in Ghana"

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L.O.L.862 after the Battle of the Somme had decimated their ranks
 

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Military LOL 862 before the battle of the Somme
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It is estimated that in excess of 200,000 Orangemen from across the world saw service during the first War some 80,000 from Canada alone. This has been described as Orangeism's greatest triumph and its heaviest defeat. Triumph in the number of volunteers who joined the war effort but defeat in that the Institution lost so many of its young men.
 

Battle of the Somme Video

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Jan.2007, GlescaPal Charlie McD,
Their Faith being well founded and a belief in what they were doing, they the then UVF... 36th (Ulster) Division were perhaps the most committed Division in the British Army's attack on the German stronghold of Thiepval. Every year when I walk the battlefields of the Somme I cannot help but feel my Northern Irish blood which runs through my veins swell with enormous pride as to their Sacrifice...plus my Glaswegian blood in memory of the HLI on the Thiepval Spur on the same day.

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