The first Buffalo funeral service to be seen for many years in Newbury was witnessed last Friday in the Old Cemetery, when Mr. Harry Lovelock, the Cheap-street butcher, was laid to rest at the age of 52, after a prolonged and painful illness. Representatives of the Buffalo Lodges in the district followed the coffin followed the coffin form their late brother’s home in King’s Road to the cemetery, where, after the church service, the solemn rites of the Buffalo order were held. In the unavoidable absence of the R.A.O.B. local chaplain (Bro, The Rev. T.S. Gray, of Hungerford) the ceremony was impressively conducted by the Provincial Grand Primo (Bro. H. Harris, K.O.M.) assisted by the Deputy Grand (Bro. C. Osmond C.P.), Bro. Morris, K.O.M., and about thirty brethren of the Order supporting. All wore full regalia, draped with crepe, everyone was greatly moved by the solemnity of the occasion. After the coffin had been lowered the brethren formed their link of brotherly love and good fellowship around the grave leaving a break in the link in remembrance of their departed brother. At the conclusion of the service each brother dropped a sprig of ivy on to the coffin.

Harry Lovelock has been actively associated with Buffaloism up to the time of his illness, and was a founder of the Winchcombe Lodge in Newbury.