‘ Last Post ’ was sounded on October 2 over the grave of the man who has sounded the same call every Armistice Day for, the last seven years at the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Ho was Trumpeter-major A. H. Imcson, late of the Royal Irish Dragoons, who died at Hillingdon, Middlesex, -aged 59. The hill passes of India heard his trumpet, and it rang on the battlefields of Gallipoli, where he wan wounded in action. Millions through* out the world have heard its notes; broadcast on Armistice Day* " .
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Evening Star, Issue 22193, 22 November 1935, Page 9
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86Page 9 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 22193, 22 November 1935, Page 9
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