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- The "Last Post" can be 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. The two regimental traditions have separate music for the calls (see Trumpet & Bugle Calls for the British Army 1966). Whilst the infantry (B♭ bugle) version is the better known of the two versions of the call the E♭ cavalry trumpet version is the tune used by the state trumpeters of the Household Cavalry. No documentary evidence survives, but it is possible that the infantry "Last Post" was composed (or at least arranged) by Josef Haydn. Haydn was in London, under the patronage of King George III, at the end of the 18th century, when the decision was taken to rationalise bugle calls across the whole of the Army and Navy. Haydn could hardly have been unaware of this enterprise, and may well have taken a leading role. The hypothesis is supported by the consideration that some of the bugle calls (such as "Reveille", "First Post", "Last Post") are musically quite complex and non-repetitive, but very well composed, and may represent a concatenation of musical phrases taken from a number of different regimental traditions. "The Last Post" is also the name of a poem by Robert Graves describing a soldier's funeral during World War I. The "Last Post" call (2nd Post) is used in British Army camps to signal the end of the day when the duty officer returns from the tour of the camp and quarters. The call "First Post" is used to mark the start of the inspection. 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 call at each of them. The "Last Post" was thus the last point of this inspection, and the 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, from which comes the term Tattoo as in Military tattoo, and also the term Taps, q.v.. The taptoe was also used to signal the end of the day, but has more prosaic origin. Taptoe originated signalling the moment that beer taps 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, 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 after the two-minute silence. Since 1928 the "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/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 organizes "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" 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. 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. 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 the recommendation is that no salute is given by either officers or troops as during the "Last Post" and Silence the recommendation is that all troops will have removed head dress (as in church service prayer), have heads bowed, weapons inverted, with flags and standards lowered.
- Bestand:Last Post. png The last post 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 Ieper wordt het elke dag om 20 uur gespeeld onder de Menenpoort door de leden van de Last Post Association, als eerbetoon aan hen die sneuvelden in de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Dit ritueel doet men al sinds 24 juli 1929. Ook bij de meeste herdenkingen in Groot-Brittannië en Commonwealth-landen wordt het signaal gebruikt.
- O Last Post é uma melodia curta usada em funerais militares das nações da Commonwealth e cerimônias de comemoração aqueles que caíram na guerra. "O último post" é também o nome de um poema de Robert Graves descrevendo o funeral de um soldado durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial. Foi originalmente um clarim do Exército Britânico para sinalizar o final do dia nos acampamentos. Em 1928, uma organização foi criada para se responsabilizar pelas homenagens. Predefinição:Referências
- 《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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