One of the functions of the bugle is to pass necessary administrative signals to individuals both indoors and outdoors over an extensive barrack area.
Is this the first sound of the bugles in retreat?
There are lots of people who like the sound of the bugle, to be near the canteen, and to live in a military atmosphere.
The drum and bugle bands do not suffice for this purpose.
The recruits may not have been quite so smart at drill or in knowing bugle calls, but they were happy and contented.
I joined a famous light infantry regiment which did everything to the call of the bugle.
We went to bed by bugle, we got up in the morning by bugle, and we went for meals by bugle.
That was the real original purpose of drums and bugles.
