Blowing the battered bugle, old soldier Maurice Green sounds a note that echoes poignantly down the years. His hero grandfather sounded the charge on this very instrument before losing his life in the ...
The 83-year-old knows every dent and tarnish tells part of the 100-year-old instrument's story. He also knows he has a special part in that story, playing the bugle at RSL ceremonies in two states.
WAR veteran Maurice Green was searching for old Army medals on a market stall when he spotted a battered old bugle, piled among junk. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you ...
Somme bugle that found its way home OLD soldier Maurice Green bought a battered old bugle from a market stall for £5 – only to find it belonged to his grandfather at the Battle of the Somme.
THE battered old bugle lay on a trestle table in the shade in the gardens of The Commandery in Worcester, and if it could have talked what a tale it would have told. Because having been to war, it had ...