The Different Degrees of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes
	First Degree "Kangaroo" Each member of a lodge start off as a 1st Degree Brother or "Kangaroo". The name "Kangaroo" probably came from when officers changed hands each month, so the "Kangaroo" hops about the lodge learning the different jobs involved. It is from there, after learning the different jobs, that each officer familiarises himself with the Rules of the Order with a Rule Book. A Kangaroo Brother can, if he so wishes, put his name forward to advance to the Second Degree.
	The Second Degree is known as a "Primo" A Primo is a Brother who has been a Kangaroo Brother and decided to prove he knows the rules of the Order and can help make decisions on a greater scale to improve the Order and it's running. Before becoming a Primo, he must sit an oral examination whereby he is tested on his abilities to conduct a lodge, to know rules and to be able to conduct an initiation ceremony should it arise. This is the key to future progress and we are taught this through ceremonies.
	Third Degree "Knight Order of Merit" Upon serving a number of years as a Primo, the lodge may feel they want to promote your status as a Primo further. We do this in the form of another degree known as a Knighthood. From there you learn more about the Order and again after a ceremony, you are given new signs and passwords to enter into a Knights Chapter, meeting other Knights and enjoying the pleasures and virtues appertaining to that degree.
	Fourth Degree "Roll of Honour" Through years of service to the Order, the lodge may wish to bestow upon you more gifts. This gift being in the form of a jewel and you bearing the title "Right Honourable Sir". Further, your name will be inscribed within a book of all those who have attained this high degree in the Grand Lodge of England. This is the highest of the degrees that you can obtain, however you can go further and maybe one day, become the Grand Primo of All England.

This photograph is of my Grandfather John William Jones, taken at Knightwick Post Office, where he was the sub-postmaster.
He was "Knight of Merit" in the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes. (Prince Albert Lodge, Knightsford Bridge, Worcestershire).
The Knight of Merit (third degree) is the first jewel on his shoulder, then the Primo (or second degree) and then the Kangaroo (or first degree). Another jewel is around his neck it looks like a Knight Order of Merit and must represent something else.