She first played it in 2000 when she was 12, after a request was put out on behalf of the Royal British Legion to the schools to find out if there was anyone who could play the Last Post. Hannah was volunteered by Holywell Middle School, even though she had never actually heard of the Last Post before! She is now 25 and has never missed a year since her first appearance, even though the family had to fetch her back from University in Cambridge for three years and then, when she moved to Peterborough to work, fetched her back from there for another there years.
Cranfield has been lucky to have a bugler for the last 13 years and this year I am sure that, like me, many will miss the slow, haunting way that Hannah played the Last Post, with the echoes dying away at the end. But Hannah - please don't feel bad about it. You've given half your life to this service. You should be proud and we must all be very grateful.
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