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Reburial / Herbegrafenis (F. Mahieu) - Mesen - 03/02/2012
Messines Ridge British Cemetery and church of Messines
Arrival of the coffin at the cemetery
The coffin in front of the Stone of Remembrance
Arrival of military officials
Arrival of Belgian authorities
Introduction to the ceremony
Opening prayer by Rev.B. Llewellyn
Wreaths waiting to be laid
Address by M. S. Evrard, Mayor of Mesen
Officials at the ceremony
Belgian soldier of the Guard of Honour
The colour party (New Zealand, British, Belgian)
New Zealand flag at the colour party
View of the public
New Zealand, Australian and Belgian officials attending the ceremony:
The buglers of the Last Post Association
Address by Hon. Dr. Jonathan Coleman, New Zealand Minister of Defence
Address by Dr. Chris Pugsley (retired Lt. Col.), senior lecturer of The Royal Military Academy of Sandhurst
View of the ceremony
Wreath on behalf of the Government of New Zealand (by the Minister of Defence)
Paying respect after wreath laying, the Hon. Dr. Jonathan Coleman, New Zealand Minister of Defence
Minister G. Bourgeois on behalf of the Flemish Government
The representative of the New Zealand Armed Forces, Lt Gen R. R. (Rhys) Jones
The representative of the Australian Armed Forces
The Governor of the Province of West Flanders, M. Decaluwé
Representative of the Belgian Armed Forces, Provincial Commander Theys
The Mayor of Mesen, M. S. Evrard
The Mayor of Ieper (Ypers), M. Dehaene.
The Mayor of Zonnebeke (Passendale) , M. D. Cardoen
The representative of the CWGC-Belgium
The Chairman of the Last Post Association, M. Benoit Mottrie
The Chairman of the Royal British Legion (Ieper)
The last procession is formed
The coffin being brought to the grave
The Guard of Honour of the Belgian Army at the grave
Last prayers and lowering of the coffin
Salute: volleys being fired
The Last Post by the buglers of the Last Past Association
The public pays a final tribute at the grave of the fallen soldier
The final resting place of the New Zealand soldier of the Riffle Brigade, a 25 year young men who died in 1917 in Flanders Fields
The new headstone
The Belgian Guard of Honour practicing before the ceremony
Messines Ridge New Zealand Memorial to the Missing, the entrance of the cemetery
"FROM THE UTTERMOST ENDS OF THE EARTH"
AOTEAROA
We will remember them
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