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I assume this was following the practice in the British army.

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Were the horse mounted cavalry ever used outside the USA mainland?

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(The Rough Riders)

The 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments
raised in 1898 for the spanish American War. It was also called "Wood's
Weary Walkers" after its first commander, Colonel Leonard Wood, as an acknowledgment of the fact that despite being a cavalry unit they ended up
fighting on foot as infantry.

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... except you cannot eat a Tank.

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Man Ate Aircraft ...

An inquest into the death of Brit Frederick Edwards in 1933 found 200 nails, 36 staples and 3 penknives in his stomach. But he didn’t even have half the appetite of Frenchman Michel Lotito, whose stage name was “Mr Eat All.” Michel ate 18 bicycles, 15 shopping carts, 7 TV sets, a computer, numerous razor blades and, believe it or not, one Cessna 150 light aircraft. The aircraft meal was not fast food, though; it took him two years, 1978 – 1980, to munch through the delight. He finished the shopping cart in four-and-a-half days.

On average, Lotito ate 2 lb (almost a kg) of glass and metal a day (as seen in the Mr Eat All video). His strange diets certainly was enough to get him into the Guinness Book of Records section of unusual skills. Only bananas and hard-boiled eggs made him feel sick, he said.

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The cavalry trumpeter [sic] used the trumpet in barracks and camp, but the
bugle in the field .............. louder, lighter and simpler. Photos abound of
the mounted trumpeter with trumpet and bugle.
So the order would be
"Trumpeter!" but he would tootle on the bugle.

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