Back Row : 1 A Higgins, 2 W Lambert, 3 J Morgan, 4 R Bond, 5 T Cox, 6 C Martin, 7 J Gunter, 8 A Meek, 9 F Kear.
Middle Row : 1 Robert Vernon Jones (Founder), 2 E Lambert, 3 H Lewis, 4 W Lewis, 5 D Adams, 6 John Earl, 7 Roy Morgan, 8 Charlie Williams, 9 N Adams.
Front Row : 1 H Lambert, 2 Hylton Miles, 3 W Rudge, 4 T Marshall, 5 W Morgan, 6 Rev. Charles Vernon, 7 W Davies, 8 Gordon Camm, 9 Tom Batten, T Morgan.

These men are members of the Vernon Lodge No 7545 of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes photographed in the school yard at Bream on 11 September 1949. The group met just across the road at the Cross Keys Inn. Membership was possible only by invitation and only with unanimous approval of the members.

Robert Vernon Jones the founder was a farmer of Blistors Farm, Bream (correspondence with Roger Dennis May 2007)

Left: A Buffs medal which belonged to Fred Yorke who lived in Bream during his early years (courtesy of Richard Yorke)

Below: The R.A.O.B. membership certificate of John Alan Davis of Bream, October 1944.(courtesy of Carole Butt)

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