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

Newsletter

Book of honour

Thanks again to all at the LPA for another wonderful ceremony on Sunday 23 May 2010. Very proud to have again read the exhortation. Would the lady who was enquring about Pte Rodway, Coldstream Guards please contact me. cg23847819.sje@virgin.net.

Stephen J Evans: Bordon Hants, United Kingdom
- 30 May 2010

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