The Composition of a bugle
call is as follows
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The
Prefix
To identify Household Division
or Battalion and Companies.
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The
Call
Reveille, cookhouse etc, standards throughout the Footguards
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The
Suffix
An indicator of who the call is for, ie
The sergeants Inwaiting
The Company Quartermaster Sergeants.
The Fire Call, etc, etc.
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Each Company has its own destinctive
prefix call
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Number 1 Company
"We are the Right
of the Line"
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Number 2 Company
"Gentlemen
all"
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Support Company
"Number
Three"
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Number 4 Company
"The Crime
Wave"
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Other Calls
within the Battalion
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Reveille
The Army call reveille (Charlie Charlie get out of bed are the
words to the tune) is not played in the Household Division. The
call we would use instead is Rouse, the difference being that
reveille is to awaken, whereas Rouse is to get you up (contrary
to the words).
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Rouse
When Rouse is played, there is a tune that has the words:
" Get out
of bed, get out of bed, get out of bed, you lazy devils, Hands
on your balls put on your socks, get out of bed, you lazy devils"
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Picquet
When the Picquet call is played the words are:
"Come and
do a Picquet boys, come and do a guard, you may think its easy
boys, but it`s fuckig hard.
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Sick
Parade
The words:
Sixty four, ninety four, he`ll
never go sick any more the poor fellows dead.
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Orders
The words to the tune:
Come to orders, come to orders,
come to orders, Justice will be done
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Mail
Call
There would be a call for one of the companies followed by the
mail call. The words to the Mail Call are:
Letter for me, letter for you,
letter from lousy Lizzie, letter from Lucy Lu.
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