Last Post at Menin Gate Ypres7th September 2024 with Band of the Grenadier Guards

[@archiebald4717]

Beautiful. Never forget. Bless the Belgians, for maintaining this commemoration. The buglers are wonderful!

[@robertneven7563]

thank you so much sir, we never forget our heroes from the UK off N Z of Canada of or fellows from Australia off the US A and eny where else , grts from a Belgain modest bugler

[@archiebald4717]

@@robertneven7563 Bless you!!!!

[@mastercommander4535]

Excellent Belgian bugle playing ….flawless ..well done e guys !

[@a-b-c123]

Wow grenadier guards...just wow.

[@vjamesg100]

Well done all of you blessed people. I had uncles killed there. I am an old man now, but I remember them. This makes me cry. Thank you.

[@Evelyn-d3o]

Thank you for this, truely moving. My Great Uncle died at Ypres and is commemorated there, his remains were never found. My Great Grandmother and Grandmother would often talk about him when I was growing up. He was never forgotten so now I visit the War Memorial in Canberra to place a Poppy for him. I attended the Menin Gate service in 2010 and bawled my eyes out. So beautiful. The Belgian people are very kind and caring, then when they realised I was Australian, it was doors opening, hugs and love. There is an ‘Australian’ School there, but to my horror, I can’t remember what / who they are affiliated with. God Bless the Belgian people. Thank you again… I’m bawling again….❤❤❤

[@pooroldedgarderby1744]

My Great Uncle (5th West Yorks) also died at Ypres on August 2nd 1915 and he too is commemorated on the Menin Gate. He was fighting at Turco Farm with his younger brother, my grandad, who was severely wounded by the same German shell. It is quite sobering to think that if they had swapped places where they were standing, myself and the whole of this line of our family would never have existed. My grandad eventually recovered but not enough to return to the fighting and he was discharged from the army in 1917.

[@Biketunerfy]

Thank you to the Belgian people for looking after our fallen soldiers and their sacrifice. Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand defended you and gave our sons to defend you and we are honoured every time you do this for our men of honour. We will remember them.

[@ba-gg6jo]

Thanks to the Belgians who perform the last post every evening rain of shine. Heartbreaking ceremony

[@moanyamech]

I was proud and moved when i visited Ypres, the battle sites and Menin gate years ago while still serving. So glad to see that this amazing remembrance still goes on. We must never forget.

[@suzanneterrey4499]

I've never heard Amazing Grace played like that! It was stunning! I'll be playing it over and over again to listen to the harmony. The playing of Nimrod took me back to Her Majesty's funeral and how moving it was. I guess I'll always associate that song with The Queen and how noble her life was. This music can bring out all the emotions a person has and expresses, so eloquently, how one feels. Best wishes and thanks from a Texan.

[@keithjackman8886]

We will remember them. ALWAYS.

[@kennesbitt9342]

I also am a grandson of an English soldier whom suffered his injuries for the remainder of his life. An honour to have witnessed this ceremony.

[@AnthonySmith-Magee]

My grandad GeorgePeverley was a bugler in the 1st ww.He was only 17 when he signed up with the Northumbrians...Bless being English meant something then..there was a pride in your country not this namby pamby attitude of what can the state give me for no effort on my behalf...Bless them all that fought for our old fashioned values

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

​@@AnthonySmith-MageeAmen to that mate 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@robertneven7563]

proud to be a grandson off a Belgain soldier off the first W War

[@heydenharrison143]

Thanks for showing this very moving scene.Wonderful music well played. Nimrod tears at the heart strings as always.Great to hear both national anthems played in such an historic place.

[@ba-gg6jo]

Nimrod always reduces me to tears. A 70 yr old from the UK

[@jf7243]

My great uncle never returned from the Great War. He dies at Fromelles 19 July 1916 along side 5,500 other raw young Aussies, thrown at hard points and machine guns over 300 yards of open ground. We visited it and Ypres a few years ago. Emotional and memorable. Merci!

[@colincocks1335]

Thankyou Australia

[@Steven_z4m-s5p]

Been there twice now a totally unforgettable and emotional experience God bless the Belgians for keeping up this wonderful and moving tribute

[@NSYresearch]

I'm very proud to say I have marched that very route. The proudest day of my life.

[@jyfoord]

Magnificent service and it is a tribute to the Belgian people who do this every day. Only negative was that the officer had to read the ode. I learnt that in school and I can still recite it. I am now 70 Years old. What has happened? This is meant to be a positive criticism, not a beat up. Still I want to go there before my time is up to pay my respects to the fallen who gave their tomorrow, for our today. God bless every one of them.

[@granthobbo]

Thank you Belgium for continuing this

[@robertneven7563]

hello we never forget are brothers in arms the bloody Britsch goodlooking Army , are frinds in the first and the second W W ar grts from a humble Belgain bugler

[@johnstephen2869]

My Fathers older brother served in the New Zealand Army Corps in France WW1. He came home thankfully. I remember as a little boy trying to get him to talk about his experience (he never would however) I think it wonderful that our friend and ally France still remembers and shows enormous respect to our boys. Bless you all.

[@PaulSPurves]

Ypres and the Menin Gate are in Belgium.

[@tombrydson781]

Deep respect all round have visited here many times

[@CathyMCFC]

Nimrod always moves me at Rememberance Sunday and it did here Lestweforget forever in gratitude for their service 🙏

[@bedynekjeanine8533]

Merci pour ce beau reportage❤

[@CrazyRev]

Makes me proud to be British (and I'm from Scotland!).

[@mfranssens]

We’re all British and proud of it. Some fantastic countries make up the union. Excellent military history too

[@sliderdriver1]

And we love your pipes! 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🏻

[@-ANGLO-SAXON-1]

You are British, England, Scotland and Wales live on the island of Britain the largest island among the British isles

[@TonyBongo869]

Was here in May, grandfather was with the 7th Battalion CEF, originally wounded at the Bluff, July 25,1916, got his blighty Sept. 26, 1916 at Courcelette. Lest we forget.

[@Llanychan]

Just superb.

[@stuartgow-p2f]

My Great Grand father was in the Grenadier Guards and is actually buried in the town cemetry there. George William Calvert.

[@carollongden2369]

I am proud to have been there in 2021. My husbands grandfather is commemorated at Tyne cot cemetery.

[@rosemaryannastrijbos6991]

I went and was present at the gate in 2018. It was part of trip post Knat lace workshop in Bruges. They did a trip a round the WW1 grave sites and lace exhibitions. Love seeing how they still show their respect to those who died during the war. 🇦🇺👋🙏🙏🙏😊🇳🇱

[@lorabrashear1771]

My grandfather was first Generation in United States. The rest of family tree is Scottish. This is beautiful.

[@vjamesg100]

Watching this brings tears to my eyes. What have our politicians done to us?

[@QuinThomas-r5o]

My Grandfather died in the battle for Hooge on 19th July 2015 age 39. Our grateful thanks to those brave men.

[@doughill1945]

2015 ?

[@cecilefox9136]

1915.

[@Scaleyback317]

Spent a poignant and interesting day in Ypres many years ago. A windswept, rainsodden day but one which I'd happily do again. Beautiful town.

[@cecilefox9136]

Typical weather ,I think at times there.Poor soldiers.😢

[@johnguest1919]

Tony Holt. RIP. Valmai, so sorry for your loss.

[@stuartmcpherson1921]

Big regret missing the Last Post when there. Unbelievable how many names are on the wall of those missing.

[@mfranssens]

We will remember them

[@corjp]

To me is Elgar's Nimrod one of the most epic and bombastic music pieces ever.... Every time I hear it I am in tears, don't know why but it happens. In my mind I see Spitfire and Hurricane pilots go into their "workplaces" up in the air and try to stay alive and save the country from the foe just because they were... The Chosen ones" to whome we owe so much. To all who are fallen in that periode... I extend my eternal gratitude for what they gave up, so that we can live in freedome now. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@Biketunerfy]

Wrong war. This is for the First World War but I get you.

[@corjp]

@@Biketunerfy I know it is written in 1898 and addapted several times , but for me the tunes portray those heroes in WWII the grunts in the fields of the Ardenne or the pilots up above in their spitfires or hurricanes... these tune give me a view of those heroes and those who gave their lives for our future and safety.

[@Biketunerfy]

@@corjp they did in both World Wars but World War One was much more violent and personal due to the stale mate and constant artillery barrages and soldier not been able to move out of the way. You looked into the eyes of the enemy and tge weapons of mass destruction such as chemical warfare was horrific.

[@Dennis-xh2ec]

As a, 4 yr old kid in Sheffield it reminds me each week a band used to March down Croksmor Rd. Not nowadays

[@coastie1961]

Love they the way the cameraman/audio recorder was marching in step with the band all the way down in the first couple of minutes. You can spot ex military straight away.

[@cecilefox9136]

Indeed!👍

[@jameswoodhall2468]

Me and my cadet band performed here last year just before the repairs started

[@rosemaryannastrijbos6991]

It’s amazing how the whole town was rebuilt after the war even the cathedral.

[@jezzab4502]

I respect every soldier. They are God's gift to us all🙏🏻

[@dje-hs6dz]

During WW2 the belgiums still carried out this ceremony in a cemetery in Sussex. They were not letting another war break with tradition. Having attended the ceremony last year it was sad seeing the monument covered up.but they are carrying out restoration which will take a few years to complete. And as my grandfather fought,and received a leg wound at passchendaele with the Seaforth highlanders I'm determined to return and see the monument in all it's glory and pay my respects again.

[@robertneven7563]

and the Belgains restart on 12 november 1918 to play the last las post for the first time afthe r 4 year s

[@vjamesg100]

I have been, not recently. I recall being amazed at the amount of graves and how well kept tgey were. Nice to watch the British participate. Probably nothing to do with our government.

[@savethebeesplantherbs8809]

merci boko my great uncle died 31.10.1914 Gloucester regiment battle of gheluvelt he has no grave private albert wood god bless Ypres

[@bruceburton3515]

We will remember them.

[@rosebarry]

My Great Uncle Arthur Watts of the London Regiment is buried at Dive Copse on the Somme. 18 years old.

[@newton18311]

My Grandfather fought at the Somme, He was one of the lucky ones who returned.

[@robertneven7563]

hello my grandfhater was in the Belgain artellery and the trnch artellery, he spent 2 year on the fronf in the bloody trenches , he come home as a modst Belgain but I find his record in Brussels , verry impresionant

[@e.chambers2973]

On the march to the Menin Gate, I didn't recognized the first piece of music (Maybe another viewer can fill in the blank), but the second is the evocative Arnhem. Leaving, the band plays First and Finest, followed by Guards' Armoured Division (it was active in the liberation of Belgium). The music was great, especially the stirring arrangement of Nimrod. This event and another you've posted - participation in the 2024 Liberation Parade, Antwerp - must be in conjunction with the band's main Belgium stop over in Bruges on Sept. 12 to mark the 80th anniversary of the September 1944 start of the liberation of Belgium. In Bruges, the band is taking part in a performance of Simon Haw's Cenotaph Requiem with the Brussels Philharmonic, the Flemish Radio Choir and the Flanders Boys Choir. Haw is now Corps Colonel of the British Army's Royal Corps of Army Music and a former commanding officer of the Household Division bands, which include the Band of the Grenadier Guards. Always a privilege to hear them. Thanks MVV 1982 for recording this event.

[@robertneven7563]

hello the Britich an the Belgain army bhrothers in arms in the first and the second W War

[@e.chambers2973]

@@robertneven7563 Indeed! Moreover, the Grenadier Guards trace their origin to the Royal Regiment of Guards formed in 1656 by King Charles II during his exile in Bruges. It's been a remarkably l-o-n-g association. In modern times, Belgium, is the only non-Commonwealth country, permitted by an honour bestowed by King George VI, to annually parade troops armed and in full dress uniform at the national cenotaph in London.

[@robertoneven2803]

@@e.chambers2973 indeed every year in jully

[@hikingmatt4113]

First march is Toc H by J Mansfield

[@e.chambers2973]

​@@hikingmatt4113 This is a new one for me. When I looked up "Toc H," the inclusion of the march made perfect sense, the title referencing the signallers' name for Talbot House, founded in Poperinge, Belgium, by an Anglican army chaplain in 1915 as a rest house for WWI soldiers fighting in the trenches. Post war, I learned, Toc H evolved into a community-minded movement in Britain and in many Commonwealth and European countries. A jaunty tune, now with a name. Thanks for that!

[@barryslaney9713]

My uncle's name ,Oliver Slaney,is on the Menin gate.

[@janenewley1014]

I,ve spotted at least one other bandsman from a different Guards Regiment…

[@unclegreybeard3969]

Two of the bandsmen are from the Irish Guards, you can see their blue plumes and different collar badges.

[@crazystarwarsguy1006]

Some band !

[@scotty101ire]

Those poor boys

[@struisdevogel6602]

Mooi !!

[@Pitcairn2]

My Great uncle Pvt Adam Christie , Gordon Highlanders is commemorated on the Menin gate panel 37 kia 25th Sept 1915

[@glynluff2595]

Can you still climb to the top of the Cloth Hall Tower? I would like the energy now?

[@cecilefox9136]

Lest we forget.

[@davidoneill9244]

Why was there a bandsman from another Guards regiment in the band?

[@geniawheddon7402]

They played a Boer war sonf... Goodbye Dolly Grey

[@Bumble2000]

Forgive me, but I don't understand why the bass drummer is out of line?

[@rawpotatofella9654]

Pity with all the scaffolding around.

[@chanchancl2987]

grandiose

[@robertwilson123]

The opening march called Arnhem I presume was introduced by the Musical Director for the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem. Why Amazing Grace was then played I have no idea? Nimrod...yes a good solid Remembrance Day tune. Then no memorable march away tune... So not a single First World War British march or tune was played at this ceremony....No outstanding Kenneth Alford marches which were written at that time, also no Pack up your Troubles or Its a Long Way to Tipperary. So a pretty mediocre choice of music for the event.

[@cecilefox9136]

How inadequate!?

[@totorvdr5994]

Toutes ces andouilles les bras levés ... Et bien sûr le français qui s'est fait la malle.