Family :

Education & Career :

Marine Officer, Southampton (1912).

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Naval Campaign is defined as to include all sea operations where attrition rates are in ones and twos and which do not fall within specific naval battles such as Jutland, Coronel, Falklands etc. This includes Merchant Navy losses.

Detail :

On 11 March 1915, Gerald Macey was admitted to Haslar Hospital at Gosport. His RNR service record gives the reasons for his admission as “neurasthenia (attempted suicide)”.

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Masonic :

MACEY, Gerald C, Lieutenant, Royal Navy Macey was the 4th Officer on the RMSS Oruba when he joined the lodge. It appears that he became a Lieutenant in the RNR and in March 1916 suffered a mental breakdown. He died in hospital in April 1916. At the Lodge meeting in May, the WM said that He died heroically for his country having overtaxed his physical and mental powers and so succumbed. He is not listed in the CWGC. Source Roger Jenkins-Historian, Royal Gloucester.

The contribution records of the Lodge show that he "Died 28th April 1916".

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley
• Website : Sussex People - Masonic Roll
• Researcher : David Earley