in spite of the heavy fighting still going on in other parts of the town. These buglers or trumpeters, sometimes seen in fire brigade uniform, are members of the fire brigade representing the Last Post Association, who organizes the events. The Last Post Association uses both silver B♭ bugles and E♭ cavalry trumpets, with either British Army tradition being respected during 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 30,000th 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 in the movement entitled Small Town, in Peter Sculthorpe's 1963 chamber orchestra work 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 the First World War; only three of them survived. The bugle call is sounded during the final moments of the play. The play was directed by Janie Smith and performed by people of Lincoln. British Forces Broadcasting Service radio stations would play the "Last Post" before the National Anthem at closedown. See also "Danmarks sidste honnør", the Danish Defence equivalent "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", a bugle call sounded at sunrise "sonnerie aux morts", the French Armed Forces equivalent "Taps", the United States Armed Forces equivalent "The Rouse" Antoon Verschoot References External