Bugles Music Armistice Day Mercat Cross Perth Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of a Scottish soldier Bugler playing the Last Post by the medieval mercat cross, or market cross, and King Edward VII Memorial, on Armistice Day on ancestry visit to the city centre of Perth, Perthshire. The Last Post is either a B♭ bugle call within British Infantry regiments or an E♭ cavalry trumpet call in British Cavalry and Royal Regiment of Artillery, Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Artillery, used at Commonwealth military funerals and ceremonies commemorating those who have been killed in war. Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France at 5:45 am, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning, the " eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month " of 1918. The date is a national holiday in France, and was declared a national holiday in many Allied nations. In the United States, Veterans Day honours American veterans, both living and dead.

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