The Menin Gate Memorial
New Bugles
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The Menin Gate Memorial
New Bugles
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In 1992 six new silver bugles were presented to the Last Post Association. The idea to give new bugles, to ensure the daily act of Remembrance might continue for many more years to come, was that of retired Lieutenant Colonel Graham Parker, OBE. Graham was responsible for arranging this gift from serving personnel of the Royal Corps of Transport, now amalgamated into the Royal Logistics Corps.
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the early 1990s the six bugles which had been presented to the Last Post
Association after in 1929 and the 1950s were beginning to lose their tone.
They had been blown every night for 60 years without interruption, except
for the period of German occupation in the Second World War. 
The
official hand-over of the new bugles was carried out in July 1992 at a
ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the dedication of the Menin Gate.