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Special(e) Last Post 11.00 hrs / uur - Ieper - 11/11/2011

Na de plechtigheid aan het Belgisch monument, vond de speciale Last Post plaats onder de Menenpoort.

Please find below the pictures of the special Last Post on Armistice Day at the Menin Gate at 11.00 hrs.

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Address by Mr. Benoit Mottrie, chairman of the Last Post Association.

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Belgian prime minister Yves Leterme and Princess Mathilde.

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The Olympic delegation

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The vice-chairman of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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Dr. Jacques Rogge, president of the IOC.

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Prayers.

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The Last Post

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Luc Dehaene, burgomaster of Ieper

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The Exhortation by Dr. Jacques Rogge

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A lament

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Laying of the wreath by Princess Mathilde

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Prime minister Yves Leterme

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Minister-president Kris Peeters of the Flemisch government

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Governor Paul Breyne and mayor Luc Dehaene

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Dr. Jacques Rogge

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The presidents of the Olympic delegation of Belgium, France, Great-Britain and Germany.

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The Indian Ambassador

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Ambassador of Canada

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The Ambassador of the United States

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The Ambassadors of the United Kingdom and Australia.

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The French Ambassador

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And then the members of the public could lay their wreaths.

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Poppies came down.

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The Kohima

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The Reveille

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The Olympic anthem and the anthems of Great-Britain and Belgium.

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The Princess greated the buglers.

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and signed the book of honour

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Presentation of a gift by the chairman of the Last Post Association.

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and the the Princess greated the Olympic delagation and athletes.

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Pierre-Olivier Beckers, president of the Belgian Olympic Committee.

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Robert Vandewalle

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Patrick Sercu

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Fred Deburghgraeve, Ulla Werbrouck and Eddy Merckx.

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Gaston Roelandts

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