Row 2 (back): 1 Jim Edwards, 2 Bob Hoare, 3 Garth Watkins, 4 Bert Rickards,5 Clive Powell/Wintle?, 6 Mike Lemin,7 Gordon Jones, 8 David Price, 9 Mike "Jammer" James, 10 Stuart Perkins, 11 David Pace, 12 Cyril Edwards.
Row 1 (front): 1 John Wilcox, 2, Vince Hoare 3, David Edwards, 4 John Belcher, 5 Mike Letheren, 6 'Ducker' Townsend, 7 Geoff Watkins, 8 Ivan Southwell .

Thanks also to David Dunn, John Belcher, Al Willetts, John Vaughan and Peter Richards.

John added: "... The other players are friends of Vince Hoare from the RAF or St Pauls College, Cheltenham. Stuart Perkins was a lecturer at Lydney Art School; he still lives locally. I was a student there at the time. That wasn't a bad team. We had some real ding-dongs with Yorkley, Lydney Old Boys and Cinderford Utd in the F.O.D Combination Cup".

David Pace recalled: "... I had been in the RAF for about 2 months and came back for the Boxing Day game and scored a try if I remember correctly!"

Vincent Hoare added "... Bob Hoare (no relation) and Ivan Southwall were two players that I introduced to Bream RFC from St Paul's College, Cheltenham".

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