The bugle played by Dominic Longhurst (11/JN) in the ANZAC Parade belonged to the 3rd Battalion of the First AIF and was carried into First World War battles from Gallipoli to the Western Front. The bugle bears the names of the battles and of members of the Battalion, many of whom did not return.

One name is that of Captain Arthur Leslie (‘Les’) Hewish, a Newington student from 1908 to 1910, who was killed at Passchendaele in 1917, aged 23. Another is Lieutenant Colonel Owen Glendower Howell-Price, commander of the Battalion, who was killed in Flanders in 1916, aged 26. He was one of five brothers who served in the War (two of them, in addition to Owen, were killed). None went to Newington, but one, Frederick Phillimore Howell-Price, sent his sons here: John (ON ’39) and Owen (ON ’44).

The bugle is now owned by Mr Brian Bown (ON ’48). It will be played again at Gallipoli for the Centenary of ANZAC Day in 2015.

David Roberts
College Archivist