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prominent freemason, being a Past Provincial Grand Warden of Worcestershire Province, a
founder member of the Old Dudleians Lodge and long standing member of the Mosaic Lodge in
Dudley.

295 Dr Leslie Howard George MOORE, Major (1914-1997) (Inducted 5.4.1948; resigned 20.7.1953
because his clinic duties clashed with club meetings.) Classification ‘Oculist’. Ophthalmic
Surgeon based at Dudley Guest Hospital but with consulting rooms at Baptist Church House,
Priory Road, Dudley. He was born at Kings Norton, Birmingham; was sent to Cotton College
Roman Catholic boarding school near Oakamoor, North Staffordshire; attended Birmingham
University and qualified in medicine in 1938, following which he started his career as a general
practitioner. He lived in the Moseley area of Birmingham all his adult life except for military
service through the Second World War with the Royal Army Medical Corps, 217 Field
Ambulance. He served in France and probably also North Africa and Italy, and rapidly rose to
the rank of Major. For several years before the war he played regularly for Birmingham Rugby
Football Club 1st XV.

296 Charles Winstone FURNIVAL (1916-2002) (Inducted 26.4.1948; left Feb.1954.) Confectioner
(Flour). He was a Pastry Cook, proprietor of the family firm of Charles Furnival, bakers,
confectioners and caterers of 1 Castle Street, Dudley where he also had a Tea Room. The
business was established in 1908 by his father, also called Charles. In 1941 Charles junior was
enlisted into the Royal Regiment of Artillery as a Sub Lieutenant, promoted to Temporary
Captain. However he appears to have been released from War service to keep the bakery going
because his father died in 1943 and his mother, who had been an assistant in the business, died
in 1945. He retired about 1963 and moved from Priory Close, Dudley to Lyme Regis, Dorset.

297 Joseph Charles BADHAM (1897-1978) (Inducted 26.7.1948; left 1964 on leaving the district.)
Transportation and Bus Service. Superintendent from 1947 to 1963 of the Black Country Division
of ‘Midland Red’ (the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company) based at the
Birmingham Road bus garage, Dudley. Previously he was Administrative Assistant to the Chief
Traffic Superintendent of the bus company. He was brought up in Worcester. From 1915 to
1919 he served as a gunner in the Royal Field Artillery, South Midland Brigade, being twice
wounded in action in France. He enlisted at the age of 18 but claimed to be one year older than
he was, and kept up this fiction during the second war. Following the Great War he joined the
Worcester Electric Traction Company as a ‘tramway motorman’, i.e. a tram driver, before
moving to Birmingham and to ‘Midland Red’ about 10 years later. He lived in Wollaston,
Stourbridge from 1952 until retiring to Pevensey near Eastbourne in 1964.

298 Arthur Wilfred DULSON (1898-1951) (Inducted 26.7.1948; previously member of Birmingham
Rotary Club; died 12.11.1951 aged only 52 whilst still a member.) Lawn mower manufacturer.
Proprietor of Dulson Associated Products Ltd, of the Atlas Works, Netherton, which he founded
in 1946, and director of the associated companies Vantage Mowers Ltd (also of Atlas Works,
Netherton), Bagnalls (West Bromwich) Ltd (spring manufacturers), Joseph Tucker Ltd (iron
founders of Birchills, Walsall), and Byfords Limited (machinery merchants of West Bromwich).
He had previously worked for many years for the Birmingham firm of Webb & Co. Ltd, becoming
managing director. He obtained several patents for improvements to lawn mowers and one for
metal bedsteads! He grew up in Old Hill and Netherton, the son of a railway signalman. During
the First World War he was a signaller in the Royal Navy and was twice torpedoed. In the Second
World War he was Commandant (with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel) of the 3rd (Dudley)
Battalion Worcestershire Army Cadets and also an officer in the Home Guard. He was a
Freemason, and was connected with many local organisations including the Senior Conservative
Club and Dudley Golf Club. He lived at Oakham Road, Dudley before moving to Stourton in 1946.