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==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 (Vaughan Williams)|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 2014 the Last Post was played upon arrival of the recovered bodies of the victims of [[MH17]] [[Eindhoven Airport]] in the [[Netherlands]]. The Last Post was chosen over the Dutch signal ''Taptoe'' due to the international character of the disaster. In 2015, [[Lee Kernaghan]] recorded a version for his album ''[[Spirit of the Anzacs (album)|Spirit of the Anzacs]]''. The "Last Post" was performed in 2015 at the state funeral of [[Lee Kuan Yew]], the founding Prime Minister of [[Singapore]]. ''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 [[God Save the King|the National Anthem]] at closedown.
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