Bugle Stories 3

Bugles and children are historically paired together. Today’s bugle story moves from 19th century bugle boys through to a 21st century bugle girl.

Programme producer Shelley WIlkinson’s big brother Ross (3rd bugler from left) in the Nelson Boy’s Brigade Company C. 1962. Photo: supplied.

“Duty calls the youth of New Zealand". New Zealand Royal New Zealand Air Force Air Training Corps. Artist unknown. Offset - C.M. Banks Ltd, Wellington (1942). Ref: Eph-D-WAR-WII-1942-03 Alexander Turnbull Library.

Christchurch West High School drum and bugle corps on parade. By William A Price in early 1900s. Ref: 1/2-000426-G Alexander Turnbull Library.

Cover of ‘Munition Mary’ C. 1917 by Brenda Girvan (1862-1952), illustrated by Gertrude Demain Hammond “a novel for teenage girls about a teenage girl, the eponymous Mary”

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