Organisation

The Last Post Association is an independent, voluntary, non-profit-making organisation. It was the Association that first founded the Last Post Ceremony back in 1928, and it is the Association that is still responsible for the day-to-day organisation of this unique act of homage. It also administers the Last Post Fund, which provides the financial resources necessary to support the ceremony. It is a tradition that the Buglers of the Association should wear the uniform of the local volunteer. Fire Brigade, of which they are all required to become members.

The Last Post was a bugle call played in the British Army (and in the armies of many other lands) to mark the end of the day's labours and the onset of the night's rest. In the context of the Last Post ceremony (and in the broader context of remembrance), it has come to represent a final farewell to the fallen at the end of their earthly labours and at the onset of their eternal rest.

Similarly, the Reveille was a bugle call played at the beginning of the day, to rouse the troops from slumber and to call them to their duties. In the context of the Last Post ceremony (and in the broader context of remembrance), the Reveille symbolises not only a return to daily life at the end of the act of homage, but also the ultimate resurrection of the fallen on the Day of Judgement

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Book of honour

Visited Ieper for the first time last week and was very impressed by the Last Post Ceremony. I had 2 uncles killed in the 1st W.W. and managed to visit one of their graves and see the other ones name in Tyne Cot cemetery as his body could not be identified. I was amazed and pleased to see this act of remembrance still being carried out to-day. A must for people of a certain age. I would also like to thank the people who ran the tours as they could not have been more helpful, and to the residents of Ieper itself for their cheerful and resilient attitude.

Peter Hastings: Glasgow, United Kingdom
- 7 July 2010

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