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French Ambassador - 02/03/2011

The French Ambassador has attended the Last Post on 2nd March, 2011. H.E. Mrs Boccoz, French Ambassador in Belgium attended the Last Post Ceremony after having visited the "In Flanders Field Museum" and been received by Burgomaster Dehaene.

In the afternoon she visited, with representatives of the Last Post Association, the French and Allied monuments and cemeteries in the Ypres Salient.

The French Army has lost more than 80.000 soldiers in the Ypres Salient in WWI. After having supported and backed the British Army in 1914 and quite often during the whole war, French Britany and Colonial Divisions have been the target of the first Gaz Attack.

Visit of the London Scottish Regiment - 04/03/2011

A delegation of the London Scottish Regiment attended the Last Post on March, 4th, 2011.

The Regiment has strong bonds with the Last Post, having attended during many years the Ceremony, quite often with a detachment of the Bataillon and Pipe Band.

Their heroic stand in Messines, as first volunteer unit in 1914 engaged in the battle, is a world wide known event.

The London Scottish Regiment Memorial along the way Wijtschate-Messines.

Anzac Day - 25/04/2012

Traditionally on 25th April, the day of the landing in Gallipoli, the Australian and New Zealand communities remember the fallen of their countries during the Great War.

The morning remembrance services are held in Zonnebeke, Passendale and Mesen.

It ends with a special Last Post Ceremony under the Meningate at Ieper which starts at 11.00hrs. All supporting members of the Last Post Association are invited to attend this special ceremony.

Inauguration new Indian Monument

 

On Saturday 12 March 2011 at 10.00hrs a new monument in remembrance of the Indian fallen of the Great War was inaugurated. This monument can be found on the side towards the Rijselpoort on the ramparts.

The inauguration took place in the presence of the Indian Ambassador and many other Indian and local authorities.

The Last Post Association delegated 4 buglers.

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30,000 Acts of Remembrance

By the 9th July 2015 the buglers of past and present at the Menin Gate will have sounded the Last Post on 30,000 occasions. To commemorate this, the Last Post Association will publish a special edition book. We need your help!

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