THE CEREMONY OF RETREAT: ANCIENT MILITARY CUSTOM OBSERVED IN AUCKLAND At aunaet on Sunday, the band and drums of the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy impressed a very large crowd with the Ceremony of Retreat at the Cenotaph in front of the War Memorial Museum. The Ceremony of Retreat is an ancient military custom of signalling at sunset with bugle* or trumpets and drums to those on duty beyond the confines of forts and walled towns to retire within for the night.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22845, 28 September 1937, Page 6
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84THE CEREMONY OF RETREAT: ANCIENT MILITARY CUSTOM OBSERVED IN AUCKLAND At aunaet on Sunday, the band and drums of the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy impressed a very large crowd with the Ceremony of Retreat at the Cenotaph in front of the War Memorial Museum. The Ceremony of Retreat is an ancient military custom of signalling at sunset with bugle* or trumpets and drums to those on duty beyond the confines of forts and walled towns to retire within for the night. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22845, 28 September 1937, Page 6
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