| Last Post - Ieper - 11/11/2009
Please find below some photographs of the Last
Post on Armistice Day, November 11th, 2009 under the Menin
Gate. Hieronder een aantal foto's van de Last
Post op Wapenstilstand 10 november 2009 onder de Menenpoort
te Ieper. 
18 year
old veteran Craig Wood, wounded in Afghanistan, was present at the ceremony. 
Arrival
of the Ypriana Band 
Mr.
Peter Slosse, head of the tourist office at Ieper, was the master of ceremony. 
Address
by Mr. Benoit Mottrie, chairman of the Last
Post Association. 
From
left to right: Yves Leterme, federal minister of Foreign Affairs, mayor Luc Dehaene
and minister Geert Bourgeois of the Flemisch government. 
From
left to right: the ambassadors from Canada, New Zealand and Australia. 
From
left to right: Mr. John Freeman of the OPCW, Guy Gruwez, honorary chairman of
the Last Post Association and Mr. Russell Thompson of the Britisch Legion. 
Prayers 
Roland
Hemeryck, dean of Ypres, 
Henk
Van Andel 
The Last
Post 
Followed
by the Exhortation by the Australian ambassador. 
A
lament by a piper 
And
the the wreathlaying started. 
The
Ypres menchoir. 
Craig
Wood also laid a wreath. 
And
then the participants of the poppy parade. 
Representatives
of the Riders Division of the Royal British Legion. 
Poppies
came down at this special occasion. 
The
Kohima by Mr. Russell Thompson of the Royal British Legion. 
The
Reveille by the buglers. 
And
finally the national anthems of Belgium and Great-Britain. 
Minister
Leterme greeted Craig Wood. 
Marching
back towards the market square. 
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