Last Post - wikipedia Last Post This article is about the musical call. For other uses, see Last Post ( disambiguation ). `` The Last Post '' redirects here. For other uses, see The Last Post ( disambiguation ). This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. ( October 2011 ) A synthesised performance of the `` Last Post ''. The `` Last Post '' The `` Last Post '' is either a B ♭ bugle call within British infantry regiments or an E ♭ cavalry trumpet call in British cavalry and Royal Regiment of Artillery ( Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Artillery ) used at Commonwealth military funerals and ceremonies commemorating those who have been killed in war. Its duration varies typically from a little over one minute to nearly three minutes. For ceremonial use, the Last Post is often followed by `` The Rouse '', or less usually the longer `` Reveille ''. The two regimental traditions have separate music for the call ( see Trumpet & Bugle Calls for the British Army 1966 ). While the B ♭ infantry bugle version is better known, the E ♭ cavalry trumpet version is used by the state trumpeters of the Household Cavalry. Contents 1 Origin and wartime use 2 Memorial usage 3 Menin Gate 4 Other uses 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Origin and wartime use This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( November 2015 ) The `` First Post '' call signals the start of the duty officer 's inspection of a British Army camp 's sentry posts, sounding a call at each one. The `` Last Post '' call originally signalled merely that the final sentry post had been inspected, and the camp was secure for the night. In addition to its normal garrison use, the Last Post call had another function at the close of a day of battle. It signalled to those who were still out and wounded or separated that the fighting was done, and to follow the sound of the call to find safety and rest. Its use in Remembrance Day ceremonies in Commonwealth nations has two generally unexpressed purposes : the first is an implied summoning of the spirits of the Fallen to the cenotaph, the second is to symbolically end the day, so that the period of silence before the Rouse is blown becomes in effect a ritualised night vigil. The Last Post as played at the end of inspection typically lasted for about 45 seconds ; when played ceremonially with notes held for longer, pauses extended, and the expression mournful, typical duration could be 75 seconds or more. This custom dates from the 17th century or earlier. It originated with British troops stationed in the Netherlands, where it drew on an older Dutch custom, called taptoe, from which comes the term Tattoo as in Military tattoo. The taptoe was also used to signal the end of the day, but originated from a signal that beer taps had to be shut, hence that the day had ended. It comes from the Dutch phrase Doe den tap toe, meaning `` Close the tap ''. The Dutch bugle call Taptoesignaal, now used for remembrance events, is not the same tune as the Last Post. The `` Last Post '' was used by British forces in North America in colonial times, but was replaced by the different `` Taps '' by the United States Army, first used in 1862 and officially recognized in 1874. Memorial usage Memorial stained glass window, Class of 1934, Royal Military College of Canada showing officer cadet playing the bugle call for the `` Last Post '' or `` The Rouse ''. During the 19th century, the `` Last Post '' was also carried to the various countries of the British Empire. In all these countries, it has been incorporated into military funerals, where it is played as a final farewell, symbolising the fact that the duty of the dead soldier is over and that they can rest in peace. `` Last Post '' is used in public ceremonials commemorating the war dead, particularly on Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations. In Australia and New Zealand it is also played on Anzac Day, usually before the two - minute silence, which concludes with `` The Rouse ''. When the post is played during services such as Anzac Day, it is required of all current serving military members to salute for the duration of the call. During services organised by the Royal British Legion, it is expected that no salute is given during the `` Last Post '' and Silence, as all personnel will have removed head dress as in church service prayer, have heads bowed, weapons inverted, and flags and standards lowered. Menin Gate Last Post plaque, Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium Since 1928, the `` Last Post '' has been played every evening at 8 p.m. by buglers of the local Last Post association at the war memorial at Ypres in Belgium known as the Menin Gate, commemorating the British Empire dead at the Battle of Ypres during the First World War. The only exception to this was during the four years of the German occupation of Ypres from 20 May 1940 to 6 September 1944, when the ceremony moved to Brookwood Cemetery in England. On the evening that Polish forces liberated Ypres, the ceremony was resumed at the Menin Gate, in spite of the heavy fighting still going on in other parts of the town. These buglers or trumpeters are quite often mistaken as being from the local fire brigade ; however, they are present every day representing the Last Post Committee. They are indeed members of the fire brigade, and can sometimes be seen wearing the uniforms, but it is not the Fire Brigade that organises `` Last Post ''. The Last Post Committee have both silver B ♭ bugles and E ♭ cavalry trumpets with either British Army tradition being respected at services at the gate. The Last Post ceremony has now been held more than 30,000 times. On 9 July 2015, a ceremony titled A tribute to the tribute. took place to commemorate the 30,000 th ceremony. Other uses The `` Last Post '' was incorporated into the finale of Robert Steadman 's In Memoriam, a choral work on the subject of remembrance. It is also incorporated into Karl Jenkins 's orchestral mass The Armed Man and Peter Sculthorpe 's chamber orchestra work, Small Town from the Fifth Continent. A slightly altered version forms part of the slow movement of the Pastoral Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams and the ending of Mike Sammes ' choral setting of Laurence Binyon 's poem For the Fallen. Robert Graves 's poem `` The Last Post '' describes a soldier 's funeral during World War I. Ford Madox Ford used The Last Post as title for part of his tetralogy Parade 's End. In 2015, Lee Kernaghan recorded a version for his album Spirit of the Anzacs. `` The Last Post '' is the title of a theatre play by David Owen Smith and Peter Came performed during Armistice Week at Lincoln Drill Hall, Lincoln in November 2014. The play concerns the Beechey family of Lincoln, UK. Amy Beechey had eight sons who all enlisted to fight during WW1 ; only three of them survived. The bugle call is played during the final moments of the play. The play was directed by Janie Smith and performed by people of Lincoln. See also `` Ich hatt ' einen Kameraden '' ( `` I had a comrade '' ), the German and Austrian equivalent for military funerals `` Il Silenzio '' ( `` Silence '' ), the Italian equivalent `` La muerte no es el final '' ( `` Death is not the end '' ), the Spanish Armed Forces equivalent `` Reveille '', the United States bugle song sounded at sunrise `` sonnerie aux morts '', the French Armed Forces equivalent `` Taps '', the United States Armed Forces equivalent `` The Rouse '' Antoon Verschoot References Jump up ^ The Last Post Association recording ( see External Links ) is 1 min 23 s ; the Queen 's Own Hussars version is 2 min 40 s Jump up ^ `` The Rouse and the Reveille ( with MP3 audio ) ''. Australian War memorial Web site. Retrieved 12 November 2015. Jump up ^ `` The Rouse and the Reveille ( explanation ) ''. Australian War memorial Web site. 27 August 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2015. Jump up ^ `` The Last Post - Australian War Memorial ''. www.awm.gov.au. Jump up ^ `` The story of the Last Post - BBC News ''. 11 November 2015. Retrieved 11 November 2015. Jump up ^ `` Last Post Association ''. www.lastpost.be. Retrieved 2014 - 12 - 02. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Last Post. The Last Post Association website relating to the Menin Gate ( a recording of `` Last Post '' can be heard at this website ) Sheet music for the `` Last Post '' ( from an Australian site commemorating ANZAC Day ) Last Post website run by a trumpet player, with music, MIDI files and notes on performance and nomenclature. `` Last Post '' played at a ANZAC Day service in New Zealand, Flash sound player, listen online Last Post as described in The Queen 's ( King 's ) regulations and orders for the army, 1868 Recording ( WMA ) of cavalry version of Last Post, Regimental Band of the Queen 's Own Hussars Bugle calls Adjutant 's Assembly Attention Boots and Saddles Quarters Charge Church Drill Fatigue Fire First First Sergeant 's Guard Mount Last Mail Mess Officer 's Pay Recall Reveille Rouse Sunset Taps Tattoo Norwegian Army Mexican Armed Forces Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Last_Post&oldid=794115896 '' Categories : Bugle calls Military music Ceremonies Acknowledgements of death Military life Hidden categories : Articles lacking in - text citations from October 2011 All articles lacking in - text citations Articles needing additional references from November 2015 All articles needing additional references Use dmy dates from June 2011 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Español Français עברית Bahasa Melayu Nederlands Norsk Português West - Vlams 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 5 August 2017, at 23 : 04. 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Question: when was the last post played in ww1
Answer: Remembrance Day