Belgian Cenotaph Parade: London 2022.
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Due to the death of his nephew, King Albert 1of Belgium and in recognition of of the heroism and sacrifice of the Belgian army in the First World War, King George V of Great Britain bestowed a unique honour on the Belgians, never given to any other non-Commonwealth country, that of a yearly parade at the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Allowing their troops to parade through central London in uniform and carrying arms.
This years parade was lead by the Band of the Irish Guards, with some help from the odd Coldstream and Grenadier bandsmen.
The parade started at the Cenotaph where there was a remembrance service and wreath laying, they then marched down Whitehall into Horse Guards Parade and then down Birdcage Walk to finish at Wellington Barracks.
Belgium has given so much to the memory of our own fallen, the Menin Gate in Ypres and those immaculately kept war cemeteries in their lovely country. This is the least we can do to honour that. What a proud moment for our Belgian friends and to all those brave soldiers of both nations who fought for our freedom.🇧🇪🇬🇧
This is so nice to see! Thanks so much for posting it and for the very helpful commentary.
Britain went to war twice for Belgium. And of course Belgians paid a huge price to try to stop the aggression coming at them from the East. I love to see that the UK still honors Belgians who fell in defense of freedom. God bless Belgium and Britain----and keep our friendship strong.
Our grandfathers died on Belgium soil, we have to remember
@@weeddegree thanks sir, the city off Ypers remember the brave Britich army every day at 20.00 hours every day every day every day every day
The only other country allowed to march in uniform and with weapons in central London 🇬🇧🤜🤛🇧🇪
The same for you guy's in Belgium 👍
Other Commonwealth countries can do this
@@Flappatackle read the description.. it says "never given to any other non-Commonwealth country"
@@JayceeR Ah ok
Why is it always women that flap their gums whilst the Last Post is sounding? Can't women shut up for just two minutes?
I love the bit where the band go through Horse Guards and the horse's head follows them as if to say you don't usually come through here.
Fantastic video!
The marches played were,
1) 0:05-Marche de I'École Royale Militaire
2) 30:35-Marche de I'École Royale Militaire
3) 37:23-St Patrick's Day
(Return to Wellington Barracks)
4) 37:58-Marche de I'École Royale Militaire
5) 38:49-Arnhem
6) 42:41-Ulster Division
7) 45:26-Sarafand
Do you know what was the music played after the first wreath was laid. I know it but can't remember the name ?(@1500_
do you know the name of the music played @15.00 just after the first wreath was laid? I do know it but the name evades me.
@@mayajrj Nimrod, from Elgar's Enigma Variations.
@@MrBaton74 Thank you - Prince Philip's funeral came to mind. But I was still shearing the rendition of I Vow to thee my country
6:20 Marche de la Force Navale Belge
I was the Standard (Flag) bearer for the ARTISTS RIFLES ASSOCIATION my friend Allan Lopez carried the Standard for the BROOKWOOD LAST POST ASSOCIATION. We were both very proud to be a part of this historic day and pay tribute to our Belgium allies. NB. During WW2 the Nazi's did not allow the Last Post to be played at the Menin Gate in Ypres- SO! every day it was played at Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey England. On the first Sunday of each month the Brookwood Last Post Association meet for the bugler to play the Last Post and to pay our respects to The Fallen... Please come and join us. Edward Jones ( The Trench Experience )
Thank you for the comprehensive explanation, MrBaton74. This was entirely new to me.
The weather though I can feel the heat even in video. Great job to all who participated.
I was glad to be a part of the ceremony.
proud to be a Belgain,
@MrBaton74. Thank you for a very interesting video and for highlighting The Belgian Cenotaph Parade. I'd never heard of this and surely it should be better known. Belgium lost so much in both world wars and yet hey have a huge memorial for all the fallen at The Menin Gate. Do we have a monument over here? (curious?) @Delvin Rogriguez Many thanks again
Thank you, I'm glad you found it interesting. It is one of those parades that seem to slip by without many people noticing.
@@MrBaton74 Shame really, It deserves to be seen and the reason why known.
The Menin gate was designed and built by the British... indeed Belgium takes great care of it and honors as they deserve the too numerous Commonwealth's servicemen who died on those Flander's fields.
There is an other big monument (built by Belgium, this time) in Liège honoring all allied soldiers who fell in WWI, called "monument interallié".
Proud to be a Belgian!
ik ook, bedankt
Regimental Band of the Irish guards 💂🇬🇧🍀
Long live the Belgian - UK friendship
The first King of the Belgians, Leopold I was the widowed husband of Britain's Princess Charlotte, the only child of George IV and Queen Caroline, who died in childbirth in 1817.
Her death opened the path to the throne of her niece Princess Alexandrina Victoria, the only daughter of the Duke of Kent.
The signing of the Treaty of London in 1839 guaranteed the neutrality of Belgium. It was the breaching of this treaty in 1914 that drew the UK and the Empire into WW1
PS: Leopold I (of Saxe-Coburg-Sarsfeld) was an uncle of Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert (of Saxe-Coburg Gotha). His sister, Princess Marie Louise was Queen Victoria's mother.
As he was the uncle of Victoria herself, since Victoria's mother was his sister. (So, yes, technically, Victoria and Albert were first cousins)
Well done the Micks regi band
Nice HD recording. A pleasure to watch. Watching in high definition is like being there but without all the tiresome walking and jostling of the crowds. Interesting to see that Britain has such a reciprocal event to the daily event at the Menin Gate in Ypres. If you haven't yet been to Ypres, in Belgium, do visit it. An important medieval city of spires and pretty gables, utterly destroyed by bombing in the First World War, but faithfully reconstructed in the following decades. You have to remind yourself that you're walking in the streets of a newly built city !
Question. Does King Philippe of Belgium also attend this Parade or just the troops?
Be advised: when the Last Post is sounding, PLEASE remain silent.
Vive la Belgique, Vive le Roi.
@09:38 and on the total disrespect of people nattering away and wandering about when the Last Post is sounded. And what on EARTH was that woman @10.12 doing wandering around on her phone? ITS THE LAST POST FFS!
Well done the Belgians. Good effort.
I agree! They do not understand the significance. I suspect that the woman was Press.
Voir nos militaires belges incapables de marcher ensemble au pas .... c' est honteux
Greatfull Belgian to the UK !
Arnhem sounding great …
We always respect our European brothers, after brexit the media went hard. It’s not true. Why would we do this if not so?
what song is this 36;04?
March of the Belgian royal military academy.
A very good day attending parade hinckley group vets
odd what there the same diffrent foot gurds dont be rude just beacuse of the there diffrent heackel and there bear caps dosent mean there odd to you
Sorry if you do not fully understand, but in the context the word odd was used above was not in a derogatory manner.
Those soldiers could easily defeat Russian in Donbass....
They did, in the great war Belgium had in 1914 (the first in the world), a reconnaissance and battle unit equipped with armoured cars (Minerva -Antwerp). It was named the “auto cannons and mitrailleurs”(acm). When the ww1 front became immobilised, the unit became useless. Then the Russian Tzar asked the Belgian government for help in the Balkan war. So the Unit went to sea and disembarked in the Russian port of Arkangelsk, from there they where deployed and took part in many battle’s. When the Russian revolution broke out they became unwanted by the soviets and had to leave, but as it was winter, the port of Arkhangelsk was frozen. So they started a huge survey, by following the trans siberien railway, the unit crossed Russia and ended up in Vladivostoc, from there by boat to Japan, from there to te Us, they crossed the states (the unit were welcomed as hero’s and had many tickertape parades) and finaly in 1918 they arrived back,via the port of Le havre, in Belgium.
😂😂😂😂😂
Did they lay down a waffle to remember the dead?
beeuacarfull the Belgains dont lay down a nice gunn from Belguim against you bro
No, a beautiful wreath!
@@robertneven7563 but I like waffles