The daily tribute

This daily tribute - performed by a team of local buglers - serves to honour the memory of the soldiers of the British Empire, who fought and died in the immortal Ypres Salient during the First World War. It is the aim of the Last Post Association to maintain this ceremony in perpetuity.

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The buglers of the Last Post Association

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17/01/2010: 28.000th day of the Last Post ceremony

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11/11/2009 - Australian Trooper Mark Gregor Strang Donaldson, VC, greeting the buglers of the Last Post Association

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18/11/2009 - Detail of the VC of Australian Trooper Mark Gregor Strang Donaldson

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11/11/2009 - 11.00 hrs ceremony: poppies

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11/11/2009 - 11.00 hrs ceremony: Afghan veteran Craig Wood laying a wreath

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11/11/2009 - The wreaths after the ceremony

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11/11/2009: Musical evocation 'The Great War Remembered'

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12/07/2007 - Visit of HRH Queen Elizabeth II, HRH Prince Philip and HRH Queen Paola

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05/07/2008 - Wreath laying for 80 years Last Post Association

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11/11/2008 - The crowd for the evening ceremony

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10/11/2009 - Poppyplanting

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10/11/2009 - Poppyplanting

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To the armies of the British Empire who stood here from 1914 to 1918 and to those who have no known grave

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The Menin Gate at night

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Book of honour

As I am currently on an overseas posting I will miss the traditional Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa, Canada which I have been fortunate enough to attend every year since my move to that city 27 years ago. In the absence of any local ceremony, I went to your website so that I could at least hear the Last Post without which a Rememberance Day is not complete for me. Thanks you and I look forward to attending the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate as soon as I have an opportunity to be in that part of the world.

Richard Smith: Santiago , Chile
- 11 November 2009

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