last post

last post
The sounding of a bugle, signalling the evening hour to bed down, also used at military funerals and remembrance services.

Twenty minutes is allowed for the duration of the roll-call, the commencement and finish of which are sounded on the bugle, and are called the first and last ‘posts.’

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