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***[http://userdoc.ancestry.com/userdocstore/download.ashx?fileid=e9c66345-39e7-46bc-8bae-b2c270394db7&mac=8CECA3217A9D4000000rWo5160DzRI=.boards Image of have a silk cloth] (slightly shorter than A4 size) relating to a Bro. Evans and given to him 1st April 1914 at Calcutta. He was a regular member of Pride of Lhassa, Lodge No M-7, Grand Lodge of India. [http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.asia.india.general/2541/mb.ashx Rootsweb India Message Board]
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/1997-07/0870152340 post] states "The Soldiers' Total Abstinence Association was formed at Agra in 1858 by a Baptist missionary, the Revd. John Gregson, to which regimental branches were affiliated".*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2006-06/1150750751 post] briefly mentions the Madras Total Abstinence League (established 1882).
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*The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Order_of_Good_Templars International Order of Good Templars] ( IOGT) (Wikipedia) originated as one of a number of fraternal organizations for temperance or total abstinence founded in the 19th century and with a structure modeled on Freemasonry, using similar ritual and regalia.
**[http://www.aasrschenectady.org/lib/Freemasonry/Ritual%20Monitors,%20Manuals,%20Guides/Indian%20Templar%20Handbook%20-%20GL%20of%20India%201907.pdf ''Indian Templar Handbook''] Compiled by the Literature Committee of the International Order of Good Templars, Grand Lodge of India. Published 1907. Includes Chapter III "Good Templary in India", page 40 aasrschenectady.org. Membership included both military personnel and others.
*Article "The Cautionary Tale of Pte Patrick O’Hare", of the 1st Leinsters. Details the temperance tract published 1897 regarding the murders in 1894 at Ahmedabad committed while under the influence of alcohol, and subsequent execution of Private O Hara. pages 4-6 ''The 40/10 The Journal of the Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Regimental Association'' December 2009 [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:prmZorL82n4J:www.leinster-regiment-association.org.uk/download/journal/LeinsterJournalDec09.pdf+Temperance+Society+Army+India&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiSPMKDwjznWQWktAx1dkTsVL935Y_9_yeSoHoj7m47iySpyEO8jcwv3sj1W6TuY94rbsDgOJdTLm91lHZAE3lCvWNBXFBD6JvXeQYzpT2hi_sMYmHof_rq5yt-IaUNqJceDh0G&sig=AHIEtbRqdt_JeDYY_JM2VFTlxZlDdxoeLQ html version] [http://www.leinster-regiment-association.org.uk/download/journal/LeinsterJournalDec09.pdf original pdf]
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