Two prized objects in Brisbane Grammar School's collection, the copper bugle and Hopkins Challenge Cup, have recently been given a new lease of life.
The copper bugle, made by Henry Potter & Co in London in 1900, was used by the School Cadet Corps until it was disbanded in 1975. A student plays this much-loved musical instrument at school ceremonies each year on Anzac Day and Remembrance Day.
The bugle band was formed in 1906 and the following year it was played by Lilley Gold Medallist, university scholar and sportsman Old Boy Albert Harding Jones (1911), a veteran at Gallipoli. Fast forward more than 100 years and talented music scholar and Old Boy Michael Whitaker '17, now in his first year at the Queensland Conservatorium, played the Last Post at school ceremonies for the three previous years. Mitch Holt is pictured playing the bugle at the 2018 Remembrance Day ceremony at BGS.
The Hopkins Challenge Cup, with its miniature cadet marksman on top, has also been restored. This distinctive presentation trophy, made by J Sanders & Sons in Sydney, was donated in 1914 by Lieutenant Colonel GH Hopkins for the best cadet marksman. That accolade in 1914 went to Gordon Francis Boyce (1914), whose name is engraved on the trophy's first shield.
The bugle and trophy were just two of the items featured in the publication, 150 Treasures of Brisbane Grammar School, as part of the School's BGS150 celebrations this year.
Source: Grammar News Summer 2019.
Source: Grammar News Summer 2019. Read the original edition