Bloke
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The Battle of Jutland was fought off Denmark’s coast in the North Sea between the British Grand Fleet and Germany’s High Seas Fleet on 31 May and 1 June 1916. It involved some 250 ships and 100,000 men and was the only major naval engagement of World War I. The recent week saw its 100th Anniversary...........Reflecting the perceived importance of the Battle of Jutland, Freemason and contemporary First Lord of the Admiralty, Brother Winston Churchill, said of the Battle's Commander, Admiral Jellicoe, that he was ‘the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon’. This was a heavy burden to rest on our Brother, for like Churchill, Admiral Sir John Jellicoe (1859-1935) was also a Freemason. After the War Jellicoe was Governor General of New Zealand (1920-24) and Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand (1922-1923). Likewise, Germany's Grand Admiral, Alfred Peter Friedrich von Tirpitz (1849-1930) who developed the small German Imperial Navy of the 1890’s into a world class force was also a Freemason, a member of Lodge Zur Aufrichtigen Herzen, Frankfurt. The famous WW2 ship Tirpitz of the Kriegsmarine was named after him. Hence the heads of both the German (Tirpitz) and British (Churchill) Navies at the time of the Battle of Jutland were Freemasons. At Sea, it was Admirals Jellicoe and Germany’s Reinhard Scheer who led their respective forces at Jutland.
Had the Allies lost the Battle of Jutland, the First World War would have been changed. The Allies’ blockade maintained before and after the Battle was strategically critical. It greatly impacted on the German war effort restricting Germany’s naval movements and domestic and war supplies. Allied command of the Sea was part of the reason the Germans resorted to raiding and unrestricted submarine operations just as they would later in WW2. Lacking command of the Sea was part of the reason Germany lost both World Wars. Jutland was a critical event in the German’s defeat.
Read the rest here and about an amazing German Freemasons at the Battle - Count Felix Von Luckner (1881-1966)
http://www.lodgedevotion.net/devoti...een-lost-some-of-the-freemasons-there-2016-05
Had the Allies lost the Battle of Jutland, the First World War would have been changed. The Allies’ blockade maintained before and after the Battle was strategically critical. It greatly impacted on the German war effort restricting Germany’s naval movements and domestic and war supplies. Allied command of the Sea was part of the reason the Germans resorted to raiding and unrestricted submarine operations just as they would later in WW2. Lacking command of the Sea was part of the reason Germany lost both World Wars. Jutland was a critical event in the German’s defeat.
Read the rest here and about an amazing German Freemasons at the Battle - Count Felix Von Luckner (1881-1966)
http://www.lodgedevotion.net/devoti...een-lost-some-of-the-freemasons-there-2016-05
