Participation in a Last Post ceremony

Every night at precisely 2000 hours all traffic under the Menin Gate Memorial is stopped, to allow the Buglers of the Last Post Association to sound their simple but moving salute to those who fought and died here so many years ago.

All members of the public are welcome to attend this daily Last Post Ceremony. No prior reservation is necessary and there is no "admittance" fee. The Last Post Association can also arrange extended ceremonies for groups, which share the aims and objectives for which our organisation stands. These extended ceremonies also take place at the usual time of 2000 hours but follow a different and slightly more elaborate order of service. During the normal daily ceremony, only the Last Post is played.

The order of service for the extended ceremony is as follows

  • Call to Attention by the Buglers of the Last Post Association
  • Last Post by the Buglers of the Last Post Association
  • Exhortation
  • Minute of Silence
  • Lament (if there is a Piper)
  • Wreath laying
  • Reveille
  • End of Ceremony

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Book of honour

I like to honour the people, and the Last Post Association for the daily discipline they have shown us hosting the ceremony in Ypres at 8 pm remembering all our brave men and women and all victims of the wars of the world.

isabelle duchene: Touched Productions, bringing the 2 worlds together, Mortsel, Belgium
- 7 December 2009

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