| Last Post - Ieper - 11/11/2008
Hieronder een aantal foto's van de Last
Post onder de Ieperse Menenpoort op dinsdag 11 november 2008 om 11.00 uur. Please
find below some photographs of the special Last
Post ceremony at the Menin Gate on Tuesday, November, 11th, 2008 at 11.00
AM. Probably a record crowd at Ieper this year. 
The
poppies of the British Legion. 
Arrival
of the buglers. 
and
the guests. 
Peter
Slosse, head of the Iepers tourist office. 
A
lot of press from all parts of the world. 
Address
by Benoit Mottrie, chairman of the Last
Post Association. 
At
the right we see Governor Paul Breyne, Minister-President of Flanders Kris Peeters
and Luc Dehaene, burgomaster of Ieper. 
Prayers
by Bisschop Roger Vangheluwe, 
Reverend
Jones 
and
Dominee Van Andel. The prayers are follwed by the Last Post. 
The
Exhortation by the The Honorary Alan Griffin, Minister of Veterans Affairs of
Australia. 
Lament
by Pipe Major John Spoore, personal piper to the late Queen Mother. 
Wreat
laying by the several authorities. 
 Minister
Alan Griffin on behalf of the Government of Australia (left) and Minister Martin
Mansergh on behalf of the Government of Ireland. 
  Burgomaster
Dehaene for the city of Ieper & Governor Breyne for the Province of West-Flanders
(left) and Ambassador Peter Kennedy of New Zealand & Ambassador Rachel Aron
of the United
Kingdom. 
Ambassador
Ovidiu Drango of Romania & Ambassador Radomir Diklic of Serbia (right). 
General
Major Vindevogel, representative of the Minister of Defence. 
Lieutenant
General Sapru on behalf of the Indian Army. 
Mr
Gunter Rauer, Chargé Counsellor, on behalf of the Ambassador of Germany
& Mr Freeman
on behalf of the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons (left) and Colonel Hadebe on behalf of the Ambassador of South Africa
& Colonel Moore on behalf of the Ambassador of Canada & Lt Col Buzzerio
on behalf of the Ambassador of the United States. 
Kapitein-ter-zee
De Vos namens het Provinciecommando West-Vlaanderen en Kolonel Vanden
Berghe
namens het CCMP 
Mr
Bob Ferguson, Trustee, on behalf of the Royal British Legion (left) and Dr Akiba,
Mayor of Hiroshima, on behalf of the international network Mayors for Peace &
Mrs Sima Samar, laureate of the 3rd Ieper Peace Prize. 
and
then it was time for members of the public to lay their wreaths. 
"O
Valliant Hearts" is played and poppies come down. 
The
Kohima by Mr Eddie Hefferman, Overseas trustee of the RBL. 
The
Reveille. 
Followed
by the natinal anthems. 
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