The Last Post: what is it, what does it mean to an old soldier, to civilians and to musicians hearing and performing it these days?
Bugle call 'Last Post' from Trumpet and Bugle Sounds of the Army - Arthur Cecil Douglas Flintoff Mickle; Gale and Polden Ltd 1915. Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira collection ID 742463. Photo: RNZ/Shelley Wilkinson
.....at the going down of the sun and in the morning... Cartoon by Malcolm Paul Evans (1945-) Press (Christchurch N.Z.) 24 April 2012. Ref: DCDL-0021002 Alexander Turnbull Library.
Last Post being played at the burial of Sapper J F Haynes, Romarin, France. Photo Henry Armytage Sanders RNZRSA. Ref: 1/2-012761-G. Alexander Turnbull Library.
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