Antoon Verschoot

Antoon Verschoot

Antoon Verschoot, MBE, Order of the Crown (Belgium) (Ypres, 19 June 1925) is a firefighter Corporal and a bugler.

Background

On the 12th of December 2015, Antoon Verschoot played his last Last Post at the Menin Gate,^[1] after 65 years Ypres with the Ypres/Ieper fire brigade, which he joined in 1950. He became a bugler for the Last Post Association^[2] in 1954 making him the oldest and longest serving bugler with the Association. After a few presses on the calculator, we have estimated that he must have played at The Gate over 15,000 times!^[3][4]

References

• Last Post Association
• The Guardian

1. Menin Gate
2. Last Post Association
3. "Retirement". Last Post Association. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
4. "The last Last Post of Antoon Verschoot". New Zealand Herold. 2 January 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2015.