The Last Post ceremony at Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium, 18 April 2018
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- The Last Post ceremony at Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium, 18 April 2018.
Menen Poort, Ieper, 18 april 2018
Ceremony with deligation of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
True to its statutes, the Last Post Association wishes to honour and remember the soldiers of the British Empire who gave their lives during the Great War of 1914-1918. The Last Post ceremony seeks to express, day after day, the lasting debt of gratitude which we all owe to the men who fought and fell for the restoration of peace and the independence of Belgium.
With the passage of time, the meaning of the ceremony has become broader and deeper. When the bugles now blow, we no longer remember simply the fallen of the British Commonwealth, but also their comrades-in-arms from Belgium, France and many other allied nations, who willingly made the supreme sacrifice.
We remember, too, that many died on the other side of No Man's Land: enemies then, but partners now in a united Europe. In this sense, the Last Post is not only a mirror reflecting Europe's troubled past, but also a beacon of hope for all our futures.
Iedere avond om 20.00 uur blaast men in Ieper onder de Menenpoort de "De Laatste Post" ter nagedachtenis aan de 54.896 soldaten uit het Britse Gemenebest die in de veldslagen van de Eerste Wereldoorlog vielen rond Ieper. Naast het blazen van de "The Last Post" worden er ook kransen gelegd.
De betekenis van de plechtigheid is in de loop der jaren wat uitgebreid: wanneer de Last Post tegenwoordig geblazen wordt, herdenken we niet enkel en alleen de gesneuvelden van het Britse Gemenebest, maar evenzeer de Belgische, Franse en andere geallieerden, die ten koste van alles meevochten.
Aan de ‘andere zijde' lieten ook velen het leven. Vijanden toen, maar partners in het verenigde Europa van nu. Aldus vertegenwoordigt de Last Post niet alleen een kijk op ons verleden, maar ook een signaal van hoop naar de toekomst toe.
Meer info op : www.lastpost.be/nl/home
Thank you for all the comments and well wishes .
I was the Piper in this video , was a honour to have played there.
3rd battalion royal regiment of Scotland the black watch is my regiment I was representing when I was playing .
And to all the bad comments go get educated.
where are the bad comments? That said, great performance nonetheless.
Thank you for this , it was beautiful to watch. Since I was newborn I’ve been to the Menin Gate for November the 11th until I got ill a few years ago.
My godfather and dad were the ones to first start dropping the poppies and he came up with the Rembella and we would walk in the parade every year with the umbrellas up ❤
Please tell me the title of the song you played. ❤️🏴🇬🇧
Thank you for your service lad. You done us proud 👏👏👏
Thank you!
As a British Army veteran the sounding of the Last Post brings me to tears every time WE WILL NEVER FORGET THANK YOU BELGIUM
Me too 2021 :(
Each day, every day. For you and for us all.
You're a Walter Mitty
Honi soi que mal y pense. Honour and duty, brother.
Beautiful...it staggers my mind that there are people who “disliked” this video, and what sad people they must be. in the U.S. Fire Services we have many traditions that we hold sacred, many of which have been passed down from our Irish brothers who came before us to answer a call that few others were willing to do. Two are especially sacred; we always carry our fallen brothers and sisters home, no exceptions..and a lone piper to say farewell with Amazing Grace. It saddens me painfully to watch our world increasingly forget, ignore, and worst of all, belittle, mock, and suppress traditions such as this. Tradition is precious...it reminds us of who we are, where we came from, our triumphs and our defeats, and most importantly it makes us remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice with the hope of making a difference & the hope that we who would follow in their footsteps would pick up the torch and carry on, learn from our failures, be proud of our triumphs, try to be better so that their sacrifice would not be in vain. Tradition is everything, whether it be a Christmas dinner with your loved ones, a firefighter carrying a fallen friend home, or a nation honoring their bravest...to give up our traditions is to give up our souls. learn them, remember them, honor those that should be honored..get on your feet, put down your phone, be silent, take off your hat, salute, pray, say thank you, or whatever your tradition warrants. But never forget, lest this world become a far lesser place. To all those who’ve stood their Last Post ❤️
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Well said Michael Culpepper. I salute you and all firefighters all over the world. Many people know that today's firefighters do more than just extinguish a fire. Thank you for your services!
Hi Michael, I had to read your post twice having be rather shocked by the statements & personal observations you made in your 4th Sentence. We all must view the World from our own specific point of reference, therefore I cannot comment on your personal observations or experience, but (thankfully) I have never been witness to such observations, they being quite alien to me. In recent years, as the generation that experienced WW2 (either in the fighting directly or being bombed daily) have all but passed on (as indeed those of WW1) , the "Commonwealth's Poppy-Day Remembrance" and the meaning behind it, seems to be growing in awareness in the very young due to a combination of the efforts of the British Legion to continue the Act of Remembrance and in primary schools, via their teachers. In the UK, (and has been forever(?) in Australia & New Zealand) at 1100 hrs on 11/11, it is becoming increasingly common in public spaces like big Department Stores, Railway Stations & Air Ports etc to come to a halt, via the Public Address System, for the "2 minute silence". It would indeed by sad if your own stated observations and experiences were general.
As a matter of Historical note, The Menin Gate is a very special place in that it is where Commonwealth Nationals be it, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, South, West & East Africans, Indians, British etc., can come and see the name of "their" Family member carved into the walls of the Gate, they being Listed as "missing" or "unknown", with no grave anywhere, from the conflict in the immediate vicinity of the Ypres Salient.
As a matter of interest, I am sure you must have your own National Official Remembrance Ceremony but this video is the UK's Annual Festival of Remembrance 2018 to commemorate 100 years since the Armistice in 1918, ruclips.net/video/ZIEQakyZtdI/видео.html, where it continually reminds British people of the sacrifice & loss made by the collective peoples of the Commonwealth through the 4 years of WW1, and then only twenty years later, during another four years of WW2. It's over 90 mins long, but I think worth watching, for no other reason than to show perspectives on Remembrance from a different viewing position, not better, not worse, but just different.
My respects to you.
please play the Dark island as your lament
Been twice as two family names there. Wonderful ceremony and very moving. Those who think otherwise have no soul.
For anyone that has not attended this daily ceremony it is probably the most moving and emotional experience you can have. The people of Ypres deserve our respect and thanks for carrying out this ceremony without fail come rain or shine or snow. First time I went and it was a few years ago I saw a very old Gentleman very frail obviously a veteran supported by his family with tears running down his cheeks, it was a profoundly moving sight and an experience I shall never forget
We went years ago now, with my old English teacher on a school trip. Very moving.
Do you know why they carry out this ceremony? They do so to respect the ANZACs. It's mutual.
Tango6nf Yeah I went when I was a serving member of the British Army of the Rhine. We had 55,000 troops throughout Germany at that time. On the Menin Gate there are that many names with no known grave. What a sobering thought. I am learning to play the pipes and my ambition is to play Flowers of the Forest here one day
@@EinMagillaGorilla This is not correct; it is a memorial to 54,896 British Empire missing including
40,244 British & Irish
6983 Candians
6918 Australians
564 South Africans
414 Indians
6 West Indians
No Newfoundlanders or New Zealanders.
But you are correct about the mutual respect.
When you saw it was it dark? The atmosphere is so much better like that rather than in this video, where it is bright.
No one who has had the honour to attend this ceremony will ever forget it. The most spine chillingly emotional experience one can have.
Since 1928, the "Last Post" has been played every evening at 8 p.m. by buglers of the local Last Post Association at the war memorial at Ypres in Belgium known as the Menin Gate, commemorating the British Empire dead at the Battle of Ypres during the First World War. The only exception to this was during the four years of the German occupation of Ypres from 20 May 1940 to 6 September 1944, when the ceremony moved to Brookwood Cemetery in England.
On the evening that Polish forces liberated Ypres, the ceremony was resumed at the Menin Gate, in spite of the heavy fighting still going on in other parts of the town. These buglers or trumpeters, sometimes seen in fire brigade uniform, are members of the fire brigade representing the Last Post Association, who organizes the events. The Last Post Association uses both silver B♭ bugles and E♭ cavalry trumpets, with either British Army tradition being respected during services at the gate.
The Last Post ceremony has now been held more than 30,000 times. On 9 July 2015, a ceremony titled A tribute to the tribute[6] took place to commemorate the 30,000th ceremony.
As the going bown of the anb in the morning
That looks way too bright for 8pm, even in the middle of the summer, though
@@mattthegamerhongkong6948 trust me during early summer it only really gets dark here around 10pm
When they've reached 54587 times they can hang up their bugles.
I think it is wonderful that the Belgium people continue to honour the war dead in this way. Long may they continue to do so.
for the coming 400 + years the last post must be held until every soldier on those walls is honored, let us hope that we wil remember not to kill eachother in the meantime
@@istoppedcaring6209 en ook de 42.000 BELGEN(militairen) die er gestorven zijn in de first W.W. walen en vlamingen zij aan zij, Neven Roberto klein zoon oudstrijder first W.W.
L.V.B you post an interesting comment with which I totally concur.
They play the song every day but bc of covid they can’t anymore
@@istoppedcaring6209 Question: how does it make it 400+ years. The walls include about 55.000 names +- which makes 140-150 years if every soldier on this wall is remembered every day. I was wondering if i miss something here because it sounds interesting to me
People in my class laughed at the man in that skirt how disrecpectful are you then they don't know what this song means to humanity
and hope they never have to face them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Skirt? It’s a kilt
The kilt, Scotland's national dress, is very beautiful. Ignorant people should find out about it before passing disparaging remarks.
Or maybe they're just juvenile, and haven't a clue. Even during the war, German army soldiers feared facing those regiments, they called them, " the ladies from hell". It appears your class mates are juvenile and immature.
@@johngray8606 Sad but true John.: we live in dark times.
Take care my friend.
@@elainsmith7711 these men are Heroes and never be forgotten nu ancestors are also combattants of ww1
I went to Ypres in 2016 to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of my uncle's death. Luckily I knew where he was buried. All the names at the Menin Gate are for the unknown graves. The ceremony was beyond moving. Thank you, Belgium. My uncle was 16 years old
My great-grandfather fell, and is buried, in Baghdad. Although a marked grave, access is impossible. Got him a plaque on the Lochnagar Crater walkway to compensate.
@@cnoc500 Maybe some day in the future you will be able to visit. I found the experience very moving
I’m interested, why is access impossible?
Respect from Brazil
You're uncle was so young may he rest in peace
Respects to the Belgians. They never forget, and we mustn't either.
we will NEVER!!!
jelle oomen Their leader in the EU couldn't care less!
@@bobbythompson3544.... Sod the EU, bunch of corrupt bureaucratic @$$wipes
@@bobbythompson3544 i am from belgium. and i will never forget.
@@cnoc500 to you are alway s good for everyone???sir Cnoc500
The whole ceremony is very moving indeed. After the bugle, a speaker recites the third verse of the poem "The fallen", ending with "We will remember them". The entire crowd repeated this line. Hard to bear, even after all the time. Thanks to the people of Belgium and Ieper for the respects and your efforts. These will as well been remembered.
I went to the Menin Gate in 1952 for our summer camp,with the 78th Glasgow Boys Brigade and we played The Flowers of the Forest at the Gate. The people of Ypres were very kind to us. The Town at that time still had the scars of War. It has become a real symbol of the memory of those who were killed or injured. Andrew Mclay
Very, very well done the lone piper - it was only the world watching you and you did yourself proud.
Wru
Thanks
Thank you
My great-granddad came back, thanks to God. I have his service medal 1914 to 1919 (yes, 1919). His name (Crozier) is engraved around the side of the medal. He had a team of horses that pulled ammunition trains. He died young suffering the effects of Bosch gas (Haber-Bosch process). He offered my Dad his whip before he died, but unfortunately my Dad had no need for an old whip. Those medals of my great-granddad are my most prized possession and they shall be passed down to my own son one day.
As a proud Englishman, an eternal respect to our fellow Scots. Mo chridhe 🖤
And so the bugles played the last post in chorus, and the pipes played The Flowers of the Forest.
Watching this with tears running down my face , so emotive & so sad . The Last Post To Be Followed With The Flowers Of The Forest , I WILL NEVER FORGET , I Owe My Freedom To Those Who Gave Their Lives So I & Many Many Thousands Like Me Can Be Free.
Beautiful I had the honor of playing the pipes here in 2005. I played the Green hills (Scottish soldier) and the Battles o'er after the last post then played Highland Cathedral towards the end of the ceremony, as it was written by a German composer I wasn't sure it was the best to play, but speaking with people afterwards it seemed to come across as a way of honouring everyone who lost there lives from both sides
As an American with genealogy that goes back to Scottish Lowlander or Border Revivers Clan, I am sure your where Brilliant with Songs you played. flowers of the Forrest I have only heard from every accomplished Bagpipers. Your a real credit to your Family and Clan.
Having been to the menin gate and paid my respects to the fallen I can honestly say that it is the most emotional place iv been followed by all the war graves and memorials in France and Belgium.LEST WE FORGET
I had the honour and privilege to attend a ceremony in June 2008, I sobbed my heart out.
Every year i play the last post in a little town in Beguim(i am the grandson off a Belgain soldiers I. W O .) thank you heros from G.B.Canada U.S. we never forget you
Respect. Watching this for the first time on a Sunday morning, coincidentally wearing my Black Watch tartan robe, which I may be buried with. Have been to Belgium, have met the people, have seen the graves. The emotion can be overwhelming for his old veteran.
One of the highlights of my first trip to Europe was seeing this remarkable ceremony- thank you for remembering. More people need to, especially here in Canada...
Visited in 2016 and was nearly brought to tears. It is brilliant ❤️WE WILL REMEMBER
What no one told me before I played inside The Menin Gate was how brilliant the acoustics are.
The town of Ypres is lovely.I did find it depressing though so see the graves of so many young men who died for nothing.And so many headstones without even a name.
Too many names without a grave, and too many stones without a name. In America these we refer to as known unto God.
I was there November 2017 to honour my grandmother's uncle, whose name is on the Gate. He was only 16.
We will remember them.
I'm a cadet bugle major and have played last post/rouse at remembrance days and at army funerals. My teachers were all ex army. The best instrument in a core of drums by far
on a ceremony like this i do not sit down on the floor like the teens, i stand up and give my respect and tribute!
respect is not taught as it were when I was a kid. Those kids probably don't stand when someone important enters their class rooms.
Having been to a Last Post Ceremony. I can vouch for it being a most moving event, even without a Piper playing "Flowers of the Forest".
I am the grandson of one of the many fallen. For my grandmother, who lost her husband and for my mother who never knew her father. RIP
We must never forget the sacrifice all those men made for us . Even after 101 years since the end of the great war .
@@HeavenCanWait7-333*Everyone disliked that*
2020 helden voor het leven💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
I went there many years ago when they played the Last Post. You could hear a pin drop as the audience went quiet
There was a lot of dust which got in peoples eyes that night for some unknown reason.
Lest We Forget
100 years have passed. Lest we forget.
We were there in November 2019, what a moving experience it was and one we’ll never forget. Lest we forget💐
Less than two weeks ago, 9th of March 2022, i was there (and in the Museum in the Ypres Cloth Hall, named "In Flanders Fields"). It was tearing ones heart apart to see and hear the stories of young men having to hack each other in pieces. May the Rest in Peace.
I have been lucky enough to witness this cereminy on many occasions. It is so.powerfull to see both young and old pYing thier respects to those that gave so much. Lest we forget
I've visited the menin gate many years ago during my second year in high school as part of a history field trip. It was a very interesting experience in helping me research what happened to my great great Uncle who went missing during WW1. I often think of returning
"I hae brocht ye to the ring, now see gif ye can dance!" - William Wallace
Oh, and how they danced in Flanders Fields. I salute you all
Truly amazing. Very well done to the Piper and Trumpeters.
My great grandfather and great uncles all fought with the Black Watch in WWI, sadly one lost his life at the Battle of Loos in 1915
I have been here many time with army cadets. The sense of pride is tangibile. I have done eulogy and formed a guard of Honour. But next month i go to lay a wreath for the first time in memory of an old friend. Lwf.
I attended this ceremony on 31 August 1997 as the last stop in a one day battlefields and Tyne Cot Cemetery tour with my friend's daughter's school. I only went with because there was a spare place on the coach but I am glad I had the experience.
Visited Menin Gate with my secondary school in 2014 not too long after the centenary of WW1 starting. That was extra special. Lest we forget.
me and my friend stood in rest position, as soldiers do, we were just kids, but it felt as if we were honoring them
My ancestors fought in ww1 I remember every day that sacrifice of those men who sacrifice d their lives for my freedom I am grateful for their sacrifice
Reminds me of my grandfather's so much it brings tears to my eyes they both fought in ww2 from Dunkirk Africa Burma and all the way to to Germany ill never forget them both miss them both to this day
I had three great uncles all die in WWI - their names are on the South African wall. A very moving tribute.
A pathway to heaven for those boys who made it home.
I have been looking for this everywhere after seeing it on TV.
A moving ceremony.
Thank you
A brilliant tribute to all those fallen.
Regrettably, not All who fell.
The Menin Gate is only for those Commonwealth Soldiers ( the British included) from the Ypres Salient of WW1 who have no known individual marked grave and provides their descendants with a place of pilgrimage to go to see their relatives name carved into it's walls. The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, located in Westminster Abbey in London, is the Commonwealth's "Collective Grave" for it's War Dead.
The Main "tribute to the fallen", as you put it, is probably the Commonwealth Festival of Remembrance from the Royal Albert Hall in London and is a quintessentially British "Ceremony of Remembrance" embracing Military Muster, Singing, Poetry Recitals, Personal Reminiscences and culminating in a short Religious Service of Remembrance. This video is the 100th Anniversary one to commemorate the end of WW1, ruclips.net/video/ZIEQakyZtdI/видео.html and gives an idea of how the British do this type of thing. This Festival precedes the Cenotaph Ceremony the next day when the High Commissioners representing many of the Commonwealth's 53 Member Nations lay a wreath to Commemorate their own war dead, and those of the smaller Member Nations they are representing. I hope this puts some context to your post.
A most beautiful and moving ceremony
I have been blessed to witness it twice
God bless the Belgian fire brigade
God bless all the British and Commonwealth lads who died and never got to be buried in their homeland xx
I was at the GP90 and had the honour of being a wreath layer there at the Menin Gate,i will never forget that time.Thought of my grandad who was at the retreat of Mons in 1914 in the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
One of the most moving tributes is The playing of "Flowers Of The Forest" by the Bagpipes! I was told at a funeral in 2007 that there are only 2 occasions where It is played on Remembrance Day for for a Fallen Soldier!😢😔💂🥁🎼🎼🏴
I was there. it was a truly moving ceremony. I shall never forget the meaning of this
Thanks
There's a piece of stone in London, and many other places, that states "We shall never forget!"
A shameful amount of current generations have forgotten already.
they still play this every single day? Thats amazing and Im having trouble holding back the tears and Im just watching a video,I couldnt imagine being in person,damn
As a Belgian replying to you here. Yes they do. Through any weather condition the last post is held. Followed by the poem:
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old .We shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning ,We will remember them." Also when the remains of a soldier are found during research on Flanders Fields, a ceremonial funeral will be organised in which a similar tribute will be held. (excuse me for my english)
I've attened this event a number of times, always hundreds of people there - a really moving event. Ypres Fire Brigade play the Last Post.
Incredible. Thank you.
Thanks
Thank You!!
May God forever look upon all of you with all his love and grace thank you God bless you
As always thank you eypre
The 105 people who have disliked this video are soulless and heartless, they do not know the sacrifices veterans made for their countries and the world, putter their own lives on the line and constantly being in danger, they died for us and these people do not respect that, this makes me unimaginably mad because they do not care of the lives lost in world wars one and two, I feel like they should learn about these wars and then maybe they will respect those in Flanders Fields and all other places that they lived, fought and died in.
RUclips counts it as a dislike when someone chooses 'not interested' on videos that pop up in the recommended feed. Most of them don't even know they're disliking a video when they do it.
Those who gave a thumbs down are mindless and selfish. If they were the civilian victims of war they would appreciate life more.
Love all you guys
. My heart is with all of youxxxxx
Wow Perfect, Very Refreshing to Listen too.
Thank you
Thank you
Visited twice 2013 and 2019, my wife's great grandad s name is on the monument killed September 1917. Hope to go back again next year .
....thanks for sharing Hedwig.
The piper was telling a story as he goes around.. and back to where he stood again. 🎵🎶
Thank you 😊
Never forgotten
Great performance! I did the same performance this year at 8 october in 2022 in Ieper.
Never Forget RIP Guy's.
They also sound last post in the Australian war memorial in Canberra Australia every evening
RIP heroes all.
When will humanity learn war is not the answer.
Never forget they gave their tomorrows so we could enjoy the lives we do today.
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That lone piper must have felt very proud indeed to do this.
My Great Grand Father died there One hundred years before. *Gunner Francis Thomas East. Royal Artillery.* My Father died a week after this was recorded.
Thankyou.
MY GRANDAD FOUGHT WITH CAMERONIANS 2 RIFLES AT GALIPILI PASHENDALE SOMME AWARDED MILITARY CROSS HE SURVIVED THE WAR ONLY 3 SURVIVED IN HIS SQUAD.
Respect! mate👍
Robert Garside cameronians best regiment ever
My dad was a Cameronian. He fought in WWII in Burma and also served in India, Palestine and Egypt.
Robert Garside a good man then
Robert Garside, Lest we forget everyone else who passed ❤️
By god that sends shivers down my spine!
Well played piper ..no words needed..folks with a heart and a head will find solace in a nice quiet corner of there choice..x
Thank you
Been there they do this 365 days a year, Teach your children to do the same, Respect
Believe you me, the Belgiums remember and will never forget.
We will never forget oure fallen soldiers Belgium French amiracen England even Germany they served their country and we have to respect that
So beautiful and so meaningful yet so sobering
We all should never ever forget. 🙏
Brilliantly put
If you've never been to Menin...it is a holy place...
Go. If you ever can, go.
The most holy place you’ll visit
Respect with a tear in my eye and heart.
Fantastic! Luv pipes, this was epic!
Respect from Calgary Alberta Canada
Respect.
magnifique.
my grandfather emigrated from glasgow scotland to canada before ist world war joined with canadian calvary,have pic of him on his mount before battle in belgium
I’m English and even I know that was majestic. God bless Scotland 🏴
Thank you
Young Willie McBride brought me here.
And I'm mighty glad that he did.
god bless the heroes
Very moving and big thank-you to the Belgians, problem is that the youth of today have no respect for those who gave their lives so they can be free today
Belgian youth clean and restore graves of WWI and WWII soldiers in Belgium so that statement doesn't fully hold up.
what an Honour for the Piper His heart would have been full of pride.