I was quietly, silently in fact, fuming.I think it just confused people the way it's carried out, with the last post and then the refs whistle which sounds like the end of things, when actually it's the beginning of the silence. It seems to happen every year.
However it did make me wonder whether most of the crowd have ever actually been told/experienced how they should behave, and also whether it could have been arranged/announced a bit better.
I lay a wreath at the cenotaph every year so it’s second nature, but I think when the announcer made a point about the silence finishing after ‘Reveille’ that confused people who’ve no idea what that actually is
I think that they played the last post after the exhortation (we will remember them) when it’s more usually the other way around?
That caused people to think that Revielle had been played so the applause was people thinking the silence has finished
Having said that I think that everyone who clapped should have to attend mandatory ‘rememberance’ training before next year.