File:Poppies Falling From the Menin Gate, Ypres MOD 45156405.jpg

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English: Poppies falling from the top of the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium.

British and Belgian soldiers, and school children from both nations gathered for a special Armistice Day Last Post ceremony in the presence of Royalty at the Menin Gate in Ypres today (Monday 11 November 2013).

In an unprecedented ceremony that conjured images from a hundred years ago, the F Troop Gun Carriage of the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery was laden with 70 First World War (FWW) style sandbags, each was filled with soil from the Flanders battlefields where so many millions had died in the Great War.

The "sacred soil" had been recently gathered in unprecedented ceremonies with the support of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at each of the 70 battlefields and FWW Commonwealth War Grave Cemeteries by Belgian and British school children, many of whom were at the ceremony today.

Soldiers from the Household Division of the British Army who yesterday had paraded in the UKÕs own ceremony of Remembrance at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, today stood proudly at the Menin Gate ÒLast PostÓ service. The Menin Gate is the official Memorial to the Missing dedicated to the British and Commonweath soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient and whose final resting place is unknown. HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and HRH Prince Laurent of Belgium attended the poignant and solemn ceremony and following the one minuteÕs silence, the Royal guests laid wreaths at the memorial.

Then one by one as the name of each FWW battlefield was called, school children from Belgium and Britain came forward carrying a named sandbag carrying the soil from that location, and, with the help of Belgian and British soldiers, placed the Sacred Soil upon a specially adapted First World War era gun carriage of the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery.

  • Organization: ARMY
  • Object Name: LOND-2013-149-402
  • Category: MOD
  • Supplemental Categories: Remembrance
  • Keywords: Menin, Menin Gate, Ypres, Memorial, World War One, WW1, Poppies, Falling
  • Country: Belgium
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Author Adrian Harlen
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