"Last Post" is a bugle call used at Commonwealth of Nations military funerals and ceremonies commemorating those who have fallen in war. "The Last Post" is also the name of a poem by Robert Graves describing a soldier's funeral during World War I. "Last Post" was originally a bugle call used in British Army camps to signal the end of the day. The name derives from the practice of inspecting all the sentry posts around such a camp at the end of the day, and playing a bugle call at each of them.

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  • "Last Post" is a bugle call used at Commonwealth of Nations military funerals and ceremonies commemorating those who have fallen in war. "The Last Post" is also the name of a poem by Robert Graves describing a soldier's funeral during World War I. "Last Post" was originally a bugle call used in British Army camps to signal the end of the day. The name derives from the practice of inspecting all the sentry posts around such a camp at the end of the day, and playing a bugle call at each of them. The "last post" was thus the last point of this inspection, and the bugle call signalling that this post had been inspected marked the end of the military day. This custom dates from at least the 17th century, and originated with British troops stationed in The Netherlands, where it drew on an older Dutch custom, called Taptoe. The Taptoe was also used to signal the end of the day, but has more prosaic origin. Taptoe originated signalling the moment that beer barrels had to be shut, hence that the day had ended. It comes from the Dutch phrase Doe den tap toe, meaning "Turn the tap off": however the Dutch "Taptoe" bugle call Taptoesignaal, now used for remembrance events, is not the same tune as the Last Post. Neither Last Post nor Taptoesignaal is to be confused with the US call "Taps", which has a similar function but different tune and origin. During the 19th century, "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. Since 1928 "Last Post" has been played every evening by buglers of the local Last Post association at the war memorial at Ieper 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 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 organizes "Last Post". "Last Post" was used by British forces in North America in colonial times, but its function was taken over in the United States by "Taps", which has been used by the United States Army since 1862. "Last Post" was incorporated into the finale of Robert Steadman's In Memoriam, a choral work on the subject of remembrance. "Last Post" is also incorporated into Karl Jenkins's 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.
  • De Last Post is een trompetsignaal, gebruikt in het Britse leger. Oorspronkelijk werd het gespeeld als afsluiting van de dag, tijdens de inspectie van de posten. Tegenwoordig wordt de Last Post vooral gebruikt bij militaire herdenkingen en begrafenissen. In het Belgische Ieper wordt het elke dag om 20 uur gespeeld onder de Menenpoort, als eerbetoon aan hen die sneuvelden in de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Dit ritueel doet men al sinds 24 juli 1929. Soms wordt gezegd dat men deze traditie zal voortzetten tot voor elke vermiste soldaat, wiens naam op de Menenpoort vermeld staat, minstens één maal geblazen is. Dit zou dan omstreeks het jaar 2090 zijn. Bij de meeste herdenkingen in Groot-Brittannië en Commonwealth-landen wordt het signaal gebruikt. Het stuk wordt vaak verward met het Nederlandse signaal Taptoe, dat op 4 mei voorafgaand aan de twee minuten stilte tijdens de Dodenherdenking wordt gespeeld. De Last Post is echter wel ontstaan uit het signaal Taptoe, toen Britse soldaten in de Nederlanden gelegerd waren in de zeventiende eeuw. Bij internationale herdenkingen in Nederland wordt ook vaak de Last Post gespeeld. Ook bij begrafenissen van Nederlandse ex-militairen die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in het Britse leger dienden of daar hun opleiding volgden kan het worden gespeeld.
  • 《最後崗位》(Last Post) 是一首著名號角軍樂，約17世紀後，軍營晚上會奏起該樂章，代表一天工作的結束，漸漸它成了殉職軍警的軼歌，寓意完成了光榮任務。
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  • 03:44 including two minutes silence from Hymns without Words Vol 1.
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  • Last Post (poem)
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  • a poem by Carol Ann Duffy
  • an album by Carbon/Silicon
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  • "Last Post" is a bugle call used at Commonwealth of Nations military funerals and ceremonies commemorating those who have fallen in war. "The Last Post" is also the name of a poem by Robert Graves describing a soldier's funeral during World War I. "Last Post" was originally a bugle call used in British Army camps to signal the end of the day. The name derives from the practice of inspecting all the sentry posts around such a camp at the end of the day, and playing a bugle call at each of them.
  • De Last Post is een trompetsignaal, gebruikt in het Britse leger. Oorspronkelijk werd het gespeeld als afsluiting van de dag, tijdens de inspectie van de posten. Tegenwoordig wordt de Last Post vooral gebruikt bij militaire herdenkingen en begrafenissen. In het Belgische Ieper wordt het elke dag om 20 uur gespeeld onder de Menenpoort, als eerbetoon aan hen die sneuvelden in de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Dit ritueel doet men al sinds 24 juli 1929.
  • 《最後崗位》(Last Post) 是一首著名號角軍樂，約17世紀後，軍營晚上會奏起該樂章，代表一天工作的結束，漸漸它成了殉職軍警的軼歌，寓意完成了光榮任務。
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  • 最後崗位
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