The Last Post Ceremony | Menin Gate | Ypres

The citizens of Ypres wanted to express their gratitude towards those who had given their lives for Belgium's freedom, hence, every evening at 20:00, buglers from the Last Post Association close the road which passes under the Menin Gate Memorial and sounds the "Last Post".
The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing is dedicated to 54,896 British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient during the First World War, and whose graves are unknown. The memorial is located at the eastern exit of the town and marks the starting point for one of the main roads out of the town that led Allied soldiers to the front line.
We Will Remember Them

[@BedsitBob]

I've witnessed this live. It's a very moving experience.

[@videowilliams]

Powerful. I'm told the names of 2 great uncles on my father's side are on that great memorial. I must go to honour them one of these days.

[@lex1945]

Just came back from the Menin Gate ceremony. So impressive and moving!

[@tonymarshall7292]

RIP all those brave boys and girls gave their lives

[@robertneven7563]

we Belgains never forget

[@christophersharp7042]

I have been to the main gate in ieper servel times still a moving cermony chris

[@OnlyGrafting]

They shall never grow old

[@NHSAHJAH436]

fantastic, i remember going to all of these places and contributing by placing poppies down, it was amazing

[@bradcobb3418]

as Siegfried Sassoon said "these incredibly nameless names"

[@arthurmiskelly857]

Rifleman 13827 Royal Irish Rifles died 1st July 1916 Thiepval Wood. Buried 2 B 3 Connaught Cemetry. 19 years old. His family will always remember him.

[@arthurmiskelly857]

How remiss of me. His name was William Webster. My wife's second cousin. Sorry for my blunder. He was a son, a brother, a nephew, a grandson who was loved, not just a statistic.

[@antonralph6947]

My gran uncle name is on the Meinn Gate. His name was Michael Ralph. He from Carlow only 21. RIP Michael.

[@darrenmuse]

My grandmother's brother's name is on that wall as "Lawrence Lowe," but actually it was his brother Joseph Lowe who died: Joe Lowe used his brother Lawrence's identification! Private Lawrence Lowe Number: 9905 2 KO Killed in action 8 May 1915 Born: St. James’, Barrow-in-Furness Enlisted: Barrow-in-Furness Commemorated: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium

[@merlinmediaproductions]

What happened to the actual Lawrence Lowe?

[@dharmacharinipasadanandi7110]

"...and poppies, whose roots are in men's veins, drop and are ever dropping...."

[@ripperduck]

RIP Charlie O'Connor, Rainbow Divisiin, US Army, WW 1...

[@lebinchois]

remember them. I leave in Plugstreet