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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Trooper Mark Gregor Donaldson VC attends Last Post

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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

48 members of Gravesham District Explorer Scouts and Leaders set of on Friday morning of the 6th November at 8am on a trip they will remember for the rest of there life's taking part in a weekend of Remembrance in France and Belgium.

Visiting these places in one weekend before returning home at 11pm on Sunday the 8th November. Our first port of call was at Tyne Cott Cemetery were 12,000 Commonwealth soldiers are buried and we laid the first of two wreath. Then on to, Sanctuary Wood a muddy trench system & museum, Hill 62 & Caterpillar Crater. On Saturday we visited the Museum in Peronne and then to Guided Tour of Fricourt the German cemetery La Boisselle Lochnagar Crater which is 100m across a mine crater created by tunnelling under the German lines then exploding them this was one is 19 mines along the Messines Ridge the explosions were heard in London.

Then on to Thiepval a British Memorial to the 73,367 men still missing were we left more poppies. Beaumont Hamel Trench system were 800 left the trench but by the dead tree in no mans land only 68 were left. In the evening we have new friend with the Scouts of Cambria. On Sunday it was of to Wellington Quarry were 20,000 lived underground be for going over the top then on to Vimy Ridge the Canadian memory 30m high Vimy Ridge the Canadian trench system.

Before arriving at the Menin gate to be given the Honour to stand Guard over the wreath laying ceremony. To stand there at the head of our District watching my explorer scouts lower the flags as the last post was played had tears rolling down my face. And as they laid our wreath to the missing and fallen I know none of us will ever forget them or our weekend of rememberance. Here we were the Guard of Honour at the Ceremony on Remembrance Sunday flying and lowering of the flags, as the last post was played and then laying of a wreath. We Will Never Forget Andrew Andrew Martin ESL.

Andrew Martin: Gravesham District Explorer Scouts, Gravesend, United Kingdom
- 13 November 2009

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