A Royal Marine firing party offered a three-gun salute, a bugler the Last Post.
During the 1950s his grandfather served as Nehru's bugler, announcing the prime minister at rallies across India.
As the coffin left the cathedral, a bugler played the Last Post.
Dressed in black winter coats to guard against the freezing temperatures, Obama and Biden held their hands over their hearts as "Taps," the US military's haunting lament to the fallen, was played by a lone bugler.
The match had been preceded by an emotional playing of the Last Post by a lone bugler and Twickenham is becoming adept at pitching this kind of occasion just right.
And to gain an insight into the democratisation of swimming I visited the recently restored Tunnels Beaches in Ilfracombe – a remarkable feat of Victorian engineering – where crowds of lady and gentlemen swimmers were once kept apart by a bugler stationed on an outcrop of rock, ready to sound the alarm if any impropriety was witnessed.
This series has been somewhat bereft of the characters and witticisms of previous offerings (nothing yet to rival Sugar's Stradivarius/bongos simile of last year, nor the revelation that he used to be trainee bugler in the Jewish Lads Brigadee) but Sugar continues to preside and crow over his crop of obsequious lumps like an angry teddy bear who has watched too much Blackadder.
Fighting in Korea, in 1951, Hector's regiment captures a teen-age soldier — not a soldier, really, but a bugler.
The bugler, who has remained by my side like a shadow, says to me sadly, 'Herr Leutnant, there is nobody there any more!' " Almost the entire unit had been annihilated at first contact.
Seven soldiers fired three rifle volleys, and a bugler played "Taps".
There had been an urge to applaud after every speaker, and we had finally given in to it after the slide show, but following the bugler there was silence.
