Identifier
2011-11-0214
Title
Bugle
Type
Military Equipment Tools & Machinery
Description
Copper Bugle with brass decorative bands and outer edge to the bell. A short chain is secured close to the mouth piece. A green woollen tassel is wrapped around the main body of the bugle. The makers mark has been stamped onto the the bell.
Creator
Boosey & Hawkers Ltd.
Coverage
London
Medium
Brass , copper , wool
Format
190 x 290 x 105 mm
Provenance
" this Bugle - from the autro biography of Betty Nelson (later MacRae), ex-Australian Army Medical Women's Service). Corporal Murphy, 113 Australian General Hospital bugler, played at the crack of dawn on the riverbank outside our windows. There was no excuse for being late on duty. Another AMWS and myself decided we would like to learn to play the bugle as we had heard it was supposed to keep your lips soft. We asked Cpl. Murphy, who had been in the Indian Army since the age of ten and was an expert bugler, if he would teach us that one had to learn from a very early age . The sisters did not appreciate our abysmal screeches when they were trying to sleep so we soon gave up . When Cpl. Murphy left the unit, he left the bugle behind . He gave it to Betty Nelson and it was placed in the Concrd Hospital Museum. it is no in the War Vets Museum ." description found with object on display
Date
Second World War, 1939-1945
Audience
Case 59
Source
Date Created
Friday, 18 January 2013