Menin gate, Ypres, people were numb after learning Queen Elizabeth had just passed away 😥😥
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Totally by accident we visited Ypres on returning from a European campervan trip and we went to see the last post at the Menin gate, we never knew that 30 mins before it had been released in the media that the Queen had passed away and we only realised at the end when some started singing god save the king, we will never forget where we were on the day the queen sadly passed 😥😥
What the Belgians host at the Menin Gate is nothing short of amazing. So heartening that they honour our dead in this way. I've marched at the Menin Gate twice now and such an amazing experience. Thank you Belgium 🇧🇪 🇬🇧
I was most fortunate to attend the Last Post ceremony in 2008, almost overwelming. Yes thank you to the people of Ypres and Belgium.
Something I forgot. The original lions guarding the gates were presented to Australia as a mark of respect and a thank you for the men who had been killed. Those lions now guard the Australian War Memorial & Museum. Some years back our government had two copies of these statues made and they now adorned the Menin Gate. RIP the men of the Australian first, second, third and forth divisions. Lest We Forget.
It is admirable after all this time. It reflects the fact that, Britain chose to go to the war on the 4th Auguest 1914, to defend Belgium when it’s neutrality had been violated by Kaiser Bill. It didn’t have to, hence the deep sense of gratitude to the fallen citizens of the British Empire and the need for the eternal memorial at the Menin Gate.
I laid a wreath on behalf of my school back 2014. Such a lovely recognition to those who served in the great war. I had the joy of wearing my RAF cadet uniform on the day along with a fellow class mate who was also in uniform.
They shall not grow old as we are left to grow old age will not weary them nor the years condemn at the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.
It's an incredibly sobering place and the ceremony is truly a fitting memory to those who lost their lives there.
Our beloved Queen Elizabeth was told when arranging for her funeral that her casket would have to be flown in an aircraft normally used to bring home the caskets of those lost in action.
She said, "If it's good enough for my lads, it's good enough for me"
I know so many of us are still grieving.
But we now have a wonderful King and Queen, we are blessed
God Save the King! 🇬🇧
The Belgium people should be proud of themselves.
I said to a Belgium lady , that I thought it was brilliant what the people of the town did very night. She said to me, it is nothing compared to what the people we remember did for us.
I am still in mourning for the loss of our great Queen, Elizabeth II.
Same here every time I think of her - Elizabeth the magnificent.
Yes, she was a gift to our nation, it’s a tough act to follow. I thank God for her life & faithfulness to her calling. We need to pray for those who follow. Lord have mercy on our nation. 🙏
SAME Here 😢🇬🇧👑
So am I. Tears come to my eyes whenever I see a photo of her on the internet or in a magazine. It's good to know it isn't just me.
@@mehusla The Magnificent, the Impeccable.
That ceremony was started in the 1920s, and has taken place every day at 8pm since then, apart from Belgium's occupation during WWII, when the Germans banned it. However, on 6th September, 1944, when the 1st Polish Armoured Division moved into Ypres to drive out the Wehrmacht, the Belgian buglers immediately went to the Menin Gate to play the last post - even though, at 8pm, fighting was still going on in the town!
Mensen van Ieper - mijn respect.
They sounded the last post in cellars during the war
@@modelrailwaynoob - I didn't know that, MRN, and thanks for posting. Having heard a bugle play the last post, very quietly, at our local Remembrance Day service, I know that even playing quietly, a bugle is pretty damn loud. To do that every night, right through the occupation, knowing what the penalty could be, must have taken an astonishing degree of cold-blooded courage. I don't think anyone who did not live under that kind of police state (on either side of the Iron Curtain) can ever fully appreciate what it must have been like.
We can only salute the heroes and heroines.
I thought that the bugles were taken to England so that the Germans would not get them, and they were played some where in London, not saying that they didn’t have other bugles.
@@carolinequirk6136 - thank you for that extra info, which I didn't know about. I'm not sure if the bugles were taken to England or not, but you're correct that the ceremony was carried out in England until 6th September, 1944. It was performed at Brookwood Military Cemetery, in Surrey, just south of London.
My uncle Frank's name is inscribed on the nearby Brookwood Memorial to 3,433 men and women of the Commonwealth Forces who died in WWII, and have no known grave. Company Sergeant Major Looney was lost at sea when the troopship 'Laconia' was torpedoed, on 12th September, 1942, with heavy loss of life, off the coast of West Africa. The tragic irony is that he was only on the ship, on his way back from serving in the 8th Army, because he'd been recommended for a commission.
RIP, Frank. Duty done.
We will never see her like again. What a fantastic example she was to all of us. RIP Queen Elizabeth 11.❤
So moving Thank you people of Ypres for maintaining this incredible monument and the memory of our fallen 💙
Hi! I was one of the bagpipers on there. I remember every bit of this video. While it was very heartbreaking indeed to hear that the Queen passed away, but it also meant that I took part of a historical event as it was the first Menin Gate performance after that death. Not only that, and I'm not boasting, but this was my first international piping trip and first performance I've ever done in Menin Gate (and also Belgium in that respect)!
We also competed in Alden Biesen two days after the Menin Gate performance.
I feel blessed and honoured 😊
Awesome, it was truly special that evening. It was the first time i had heard god save the King by some members of the crowd and a visit I’ll never forget. 😊
Well done❤
Good on you mate...be very proud ,if not you then who..
A wonderful video, everything was beautiful, the bugles, the band and playing of the Flowers of the forest. A great experience for any piper to take part.the band was playing Balmoral in honour of the Late Queen, it was so appropriate, Thank you for sharing your personal details with us, something you will never forget. My husband and I are retired pipers, we always remember our band playing for the Queen and some of her family at Balmoral castle.
@@artful1967 sounds like you carry hate in your heart for never in a billion years will you understand such things...we all measure with our own mental yardstick... upgrade yours it's void.
That was so moving. You can't help but weep for those poor souls.
Two of my great uncles were killed at Ypres and their names are on the arch.Thankyou to the people of Ypres for respecting it for all these years.🇬🇧🇲🇫
@@stevedriver1376 Yeah, sorry unintentional 🇧🇪🇬🇧🇲🇫
@@stevedriver1376 Thankyou for clarification.It was my GREAT uncles that were killed by the way. We use that term not for glorification, but for family tree positions.
Only one of my great great uncles is listed on the Menu Gate, on the left hand side, the second panel from the left when you're facing the town centre. Surprisingly we only lost 1 family member in WWI. WWII was worse for my family. Only 2 members served in Europe, my wonderful grandfather Ron who was a commando & parachuted behind German lines on D-Day & my great uncle/godfather, Joseph, who lied about his age to join up, hoping to be with his brothers. He was in France, apart from his family, by the time they found out he was too young but he begged not to be sent home. They let him stay but they took his weapons away from him, keeping him away from all fighting. He was made a stretcher bearer/porter/orderly in a military hospital but he still saw bad things there. When he came home he had what we now call PTSD. He suffered from mental health issues for the rest of his life, never able to marry or work. He rarely spoke, he was too scared. When we visited, he used to sit in a corner & rock but apparently he loved me to bits. He lived with his sister & she said his eyes started shining when he knew we were coming. When I was a baby & a toddler, he used to take me into a room away from everyone & he'd chatter non-stop to me but would go silent with everyone else. As I grew up, he fell silent with me too but he still loved being with me. He died in his 60s, complications of diabetes. He was the last boy to die from a family of 12 children, 6 boys & 6 girls. Apart from 1 girl who died from cancer in her 70, the girls all lived to their 90s & the 1 who looked after my uncle Joseph died at 101. All his brothers had fought in the Far East, some killed by the Japanese, others taken prisoner. The former prisoners came back in a terrible state, & were never well again. They also couldn't eat many foods & had stomach issues, with them all dying of stomach or bowel cancer by their late 30s/mid 40s. It was only in the 1990s that my great aunt was told where 1 of her brothers was buried. He died being used as slave labour, but no-one knew where he was buried initially. When they found out they wrote to inform my aunt, but warned her not to try to visit as the terrain was very rough, certainly unsuitable for a woman of her age, but more importantly Myanmar was politically unstable & the government frequently attacked people in the provinces near the cemetery. I wish the internet had existed for her to have seen her brothers grave. The cemetery & its records are online now, & I've been lucky to see his grave. Like those in Europe, the place is impeccable. We still don't know where the others died, nor where they're buried. Uncle Joseph hadn't been my original godfather, he took over when my uncle Francis died when I was days old.
I've been to Ypres many times. My Mum taught history so we frequently visited historical sites, which in France & Belgium meant a lot of war memorials & cemeteries. One thing that's remarkable is when you look at the graves in the German war cemeteries, as both world wars progressed, the ages on the tombstones in the German cemeteries dropped far lower than the allies. You see children in their mid & late teens in the German cemeteries, as low as 15 & 16 in some. You might see that age very rarely in the allied navies, with cabin boys, but never in the army. It was reasonably common for the German forces though, unfortunately.
@@angelaburrow8114 What a story you have Angela! One of my direct family uncle was in Burma for years and fought there in WW2 he came back with a ulcerated leg that never healed and had to be dressed regularly to the day he died in his seventies. It was from 'Beri beri' and the flesh eating diseases that were there in the jungle. He was not captured by the Japanese, but he did not like talking about his experiances.Which is a shame because I would liked to have known more.🇬🇧
@@angelaburrow8114 Thank you for sharing your history. May the souls of the departed through the mercy of God, rest in peace
I was there that day. To learn that The Queen had passed before this ceremony made for an even more sombre evening. Utmost respect to the Belgian community who do this day after day to honour the fallen from WW1. Thankfully,the rain had stopped by the time the ceremony started. Also visited Flanders Field museum in the square and Tyne Cot cemetery earlier. A very moving day all round.
I would like to be there, Lest we forget. Thank you Ypres for having this remembrance. Greetings from Canada.
I visited the Menin Gate earlier this year to find the name of my Great Uncle inscribed on the panels. He was killed in 1917 at the Spoilbank Sector just outside Ypres a month before the Battle of Passchendaele. He was a member of the 1st/18th Battalion London Irish Rifles, aged 27.
Bless his soul for his service and your family for their sacrifice. 🙏🙏🙏
@@aitchgee921 Cheers mate!
I defy anyone who attends this service at the Menin gate, not to come away 1. Without crying, 2 not appreciating the futility of war
I remember going there many years ago for a service to remember those who had fallen during both wars. Small planes flew overhead and dropped poppies I will be never forget how moving it was .
They have not forgotten our fallen... the Gate endures and so does the memory of that loss... Our boys earned that peace ... I've stood there and felt that sound rise to the vaulted ceiling and out to the stars its utterly sad and yet beautifull." .. We can never repay them for what they endured , but finding a way to stay free from war is a good start. ... God bless all who serve 🇬🇧🙏
Surely one of the most emotional places to visit. My first time I was choked to think of what must be the stories behind each and every name, their parents, grandparents, siblings, children and how many would have left the world without children who might have been and from so many parts of the world. Speechless at the time and verging on tears whenever a broadcast is seen.
Thank you for showing this on you tube. Always forever grateful to all the soldiers who died in the wars. Lest we forget. Thank you🇦🇺
Visited the Menin Gate a number of times and this inspiration event. Several family deaths in both world wars, and so grateful to the Belgian people for their remembrance each day. My abiding thought is also of those young German boys, whose graveyards are so dark and forbidding and less remembered. They were equally victims if the actions of those who committed all these young people to the horror of war.
Yes, the young and innocent pay for the greed and ego of the politicians.
One of the saddest things I've ever seen were the WW1 German Cemeteries in Belgium, it made me cry. Because these were young men who, like the Allies, were dragged into a politically driven global conflict, faced appalling conditions, and paid the ultimate sacrifice. But unlike the Allies, the German cemeteries do not honour those buried within in the same way Commonwealth War Graves have white headstones/crosses and flowers and plants on each grave, they are beautifully maintained, peaceful places. I visited my great-uncle's grave the day before and left a poppy. The next day I visited a German cemetery and left a poppy on the grave of a young German soldier. No matter what side, those young men were all someone's son, or brother, or husband, or uncle, or nephew, who lie in a foreign field far from their homelands. I've recently watched the 2022 remake of "All Quiet On The Western Front, which was terribly moving. Lest We Forget applies equally to both sides.
For many years I have left a wooden cross at our cenotaph to ALL unknown who died in the wars. There is a german pilot buried in the same row as my grandfather, both who died in WW2. My father started looking after the german grave when it became over grown. I've done the same thing, and my childen and grandchildren will carry on once I'm gone.
John, the saddest thing I saw in Belgium was the German graves. So many Jewish folk died fighting for "Germany", see it by the little stones that are placed on the graves. Twenty years later some mad man is sending them to extermination camps!
All those poor men. God bless them all.😢
Afew years ago I was a Tour Manager for Holiday Companies and I did many many tours all around The Somme, from the War Cemeteries, the trenches at Hill 62, the Tunnels at The Canadian Memorial, and then go into the Museum at Ypres, and then we used to always be at The Menien Gate at 8pm, for the Last Post, and it's not just performed on Remembrance Day it is performed every evening by the Ypres Fire Brigaide. And when you have been all around The Somme to the numerous Grave Yards and take it all in and then the Last Post it really leaves a lump in your throat and your heart for all those who lost their lives during that awful war, God live the people of Ypres for remembering all the different Nationalities of the lives lost.
This happens every night. Gone are the days of one bugler and a couple of locals. People are always this respectful, but that night would have been more poignant.
I went there 60 years ago and was completely overwhelmed. There were still trenches at Hill 60.
something that will stay in my memory forever
Belgium is a great place with terrific people.🇬🇧
God Rest The Queen.
God Save King.
❤️ to 🇧🇪
I have been there, very moving " we will remember them".
I've been several times. A short yet powerful commemoration.
Let us also remember the terrible loss of the German nation from the Great War. Young boys and men from that nation also lost in the mud and never found. May I recommend a visit to Langemark cemetery in the area. Very poignant and peaceful.
May God bless and keep ALL the doomed generation who died out there and tragically never went home.
My maternal great grandfather was shell shocked in Belgium and sent away from the front. He met my great grandmother - a washer woman in Bethnal Green - and she followed him back to Canada. He spent many years trying to get mentally well. Although his name isn't on this monument, it means a great deal to those who lost precious pieces of their families.
To the men we never got to know...
I was the Scots Guards piper who played on the 11th Nov 2000, the millennium.
My son and I went to see the Menin Gate, Ypres, and the war graves cemetery about 3 years ago in November, when it was cold and wet, but found it to be an amazing place. We never had time to stay for the 8pm ceremony as we were based in Ostend for a week.
The things that stuck in our minds were the `carpet` of poppies on wooden crosses; the amount of graves with "known only to god" headstones; the thousands of names inscribed on the gate walls and the awesome peace and sense of history of the place. I would recommend at least one visit here to anyone interested in remembrance of those lost in battle. Belgium will be rightly proud that it
upholds the traditions and upkeep of this place.
Me and dad always attend war ceremonies because of my great grandfather he was a WWII survivor and he would have been very proud of me and Woody.EXE today. He would have just turned 91 by now
I think the Piper's lament was the same one piped at the internments of both Prince Philip and the Queen at Windsor.
Have to say the buglers got The Last post absolutely spot on. Well played Messieurs.
Of course it is it’s flowers of the forest it’s played at all military funerals and on Remembrance Sunday
@@battaliance In that case it isn't the same as the Lament at Westminster Abbey which was ‘Sleep, dearie, sleep’. I believe the final Lament at Windsor St George's was "A Salute to the Royal Fendersmith."
Yes, it was Sleep, Dearie, sleep
@@1chish I believe "Flowers of the Forest" was the Lament at Prince Philip's funeral and you are spot on with the Laments for Her Majesty.
My Dads cousin is on the wall, KIA in Feb 1918, last seen falling into a German trench after being shot in the chest, 37Battalion first Australian infantry Force, aged 21, i visited the wall to pay my respects, seemed strange to think he walked out that same road and never came back.
A real life hero 💙🇬🇧
WOW!! What a memory to cherish.
Gave me goosebumps 🙏🏼
Thank you professional moochers for your campsite recommendations, we were able to be there with your help x
@@barbarahinchcliffe9796 you’re very welcome! Just pleased you enjoyed it as much as we did 👌🏼
Thanks Belgium for maintaining the tribute! 🏴
Pipes and drums, such an evocative sound.
I have no words, but Thank You😢
My little Grandad shared the horrors The Great War with me when I was 8yrs old. Ive never forgotten nor will I, the picture he painted in words, of seeing faces young German soldiers faces.
Thankyou Belgium x
Even though it’s four months I still can’t believe she’s gone I was watching something on u tube and heard her voice it will and always be something special she was our queen my queen the nation’s queen never forget
Thank you- I had not known about this. My three uncles and father served in WWII. My dad drove a jeep to deliver messages in Germany, at night, no headlights. He loved studying the weather and his crops. He passed at age 91. My mother’s brother was shot in the arm, had to draw with his left hand, as a commercial artist.
Love and respect for our Belgian friends
Beautifully shot.....gentle camera movement, slow panning, in keeping with the occasion.The Hall of Memory contains 54,395 Commonwealth fallen who have no known graves. However, it was too small to have all the names of the missing, a further 34, 984...these are at the Tyne Cot Memorial for the Missing.........nearly 90,000 soldiers never found, which tells you something of the incalculable tragedy of World War 1.
Thank you, i went to Tyne Cot the day after this and did a similar video, i went very early so not that many people about. A visit I’ll never forget 😥
I visited may years ago following an anniversary commemoration of Waterloo , the hospitality and respect for the fallen paid by the people of Belgium was remarkable.
Thank you so much for posting- we must never forget. What a wonderful tribute offered daily by Belgium.
Thank you for posting this.
A trip to the Menin gate should be encouraged to all UK schools to take pupils and teachers to learn of the horrors and sacrifices made.
I have visited the gate many times and am moved deeply with the ceremony.
What a pity all UK and Eu politicians aren't made to visit, they too may learn a great deal.
God save the King.
My hometown❤ ypres city
I have been there a number of times the first being quite some time ago. I remember seeing a very old Gentleman slowly walking to the arch supported by a lady, probably his daughter. His back bent and every step an effort while on his old fashioned raincoat were a row of medals making a clinking noise. As the last post sounded he wept. Watching him almost broke my heart and I felt extremely humble. Who he was and what he had been I don't know, I suspect that he was one of those that experienced that bloody war, saw his comrades killed, suffered terrible conditions, was possibly wounded but despite it all did his duty.
He will be dead now but whenever I hear the last post I think of him and all those that like him did their duty no matter what.
January 16,2023
Texas, United States 🇺🇸
I miss the Queen.
Amazing Lady, person, and gracious Queen +++
I attended 3 nights in a row, in 2020. My Grandfather is buried in the Somme, he went 4 years all thru the war & was killed in late August 1918 just before the Armistice, Age 26..
I am the only member of the family that ever visited his Grave.. Lest we Forget..
I've been to Ypres ( Wipers) many times over the years .. a lovely place with lovely people
My grandfather fought at Ypres and like you say, he always called the city Wipers.
I’m always at war occasional ceremonies with my dad and I always appreciate my dads kind words about them every year
My Great Grandfather is buried in Ypres Tyne Cote Cemetary 😥😥
God bless , both my great grandfathers fought here , I was a lucky one as both came home ❤
One of my Great Uncles is also at Tyne Cote. His brother died seven days before him. One of them had been seconded to the Seaforth Highlanders and as part of his dress uniform had been issued a kilt. My Great Grandmother (maternal line) was sent his kilt after he died and she unpicked it and every night until her death, she would wrap it around herself so she could be close to him.
@@enkisdaughter4795 Deeply touching recollection. Thank you for sharing.
God Bless The Queen...
God Bless Our King...
x
THANK YOU BELQUIE A WONDERFUL COUNTRY.
I remember going to the gate with my highschool. it's an amazing place and the last post. Well hard to put in to words.
God bless your great country 🙏. The foundation of perfection.
Lest we forget Some gave ALL
Sobering. And to think I as a Brit was arguing on UA-cam with a young man from Belgium just the other day because, he thought what Putin was doing in the Ukraine was 'OK by him' whereas, I pointed out that what Putin was trying to do in Ukraine was exactly the same as Hitler did to most of Europe including Belgium during WW2. This film just brings home how the fight for freedom is never fully won and those who are fallen in two world war's must NEVER be forgotten . Great credit to Belgium here though.
Honoring all those men who fought and died for our freedom in two world wars
Never forget also the suffering of the family of these men ..
With all respect from Belgium !
Thank you for sharing.
I miss the Queen so much I miss her beautiful smile I've always enjoyed the royals. I was 11 years old when she became Queen she's the only person I've known that's in the Royal family that's been there that long her and her husband. I am an American and I love the royals. I wish Harry didn't have so much hate for his family it breaks my heart to think what hes doing to then. God-bless the king and may he be safe .
The nearby Tyne Cot Cemetery walls list thousands and thousands more names of British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in battle there and have no known graves. Sobering.
Flowers of the forest- one of the most moving songs played on the bag pipes
Lest We ever Forget.
I’m not a military person and don’t believe I had a relative killed in the Great War
I’ve been to the Menin gate 3 times and it always brings me to tears and the last post makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I’ve visited Tyne Cott Cemetery and seeing the row upon row of soldiers names on stones and the very young ages makes you eternally grateful for their brave sacrifices
May they all Rest in Peace
It's a epic or epoch, era ,or Reign of a Queen, in Human Tears it's a Wash ,How does one measure a Loss .
So moving and Respectful
We, indeed, will remember them. For those we loved, we will remember them, for those that were our brothers & sisters in arms, we will remember them...your graciousness Belgium, touches us all...I'm, so very happy & gloriously NY Toms very British future wife MD, Veteran, Middle E. & Cont. of Africa, retired Dragon Lady
this is beautiful ..people of Belguim and ant free world thank you for your respect as i respect you all
I have visited Menongate for Last post service very moving Lest we forget
It's Menin Gate.
I will always think of her. Suzie from Puyallup Washington USA 💕💕
My uncle's name is on the wall he was in the 9th lancer
My grandads cousins name is on the Menim Gate. His uncle had three sons killed in both wars, two in ww1 another in ww2. James H Ayley. The two that lost their lives in ww1 are both buried in France, and my grandad also lost his life in ww1, sent home from Flanders’s Field, and died 6 mths later, my dad his youngest of six children was born 6 weeks after his death.
The Queen's passing was indeed history. To be a bagpiper at this time would indeed be a momentous occasion to be very proud of. You honored her with your heart and soul surely.
I remember one particular visit to Tyne Cot cemetery about 25 years ago reading the headstones one in Paticular caught my eye it said simply Our Boy I must admit it moved me to tears as I thought of my own son thankfully spared of war
Who are those RUDE people walking a across the gate. Jail them and throw the keys ayay.
JML
The lament is Flowers of the Forest
Thank you Belgium for remembering and honoring our Commonwealth dead.
It's a real somber place.
Beautiful. Lest we forget. ❤✝🛐🙏🏻⚓💔😢
It's great they celebrate this every day 2 thank the young soldiers who gave there lives 2 save their country.and think more countries should do the same .some of these young men lied about there age just 2 sign up .and lost their lives in the the battles that followed and should always be remember.just think if war broke out 2day God forbid what young man would enlist 2 serve and go 2 fight.not a chance in hell would young people rally 2 the call.
The buglers playing Last Post are from the Ypres Fire Brigade. They've been performing the ceremony since 1918 except for when the Germans occupied the city during World War II. The day after the Germans left the Fire Brigade recommenced the ceremony.
Bless you all.
My father survived ww1 abd was sent to the m8ddle East on cessation . His two brothers never been found
My son paraded with army cadets two years on the trot .Furst time as standard bearer for his company and second time as acting cadet CSM and laid a wreath They went to all the battlefields. . He , nor his company will ever firget..
No It is I who should thank you I wasn't aware of the existence of gate, I couldn't help myself remarking there's alot of souls on those walls. My prayers go out to each & everyone of them.. May their sacrifice be rewarded by taking up a joyful everlasting spiritual home in the Lords kingdom.
My great uncle's name is there.
Bonjour, hélas mon fils Tommy en allant visiter ce site, avec sa petite amie, à trouver la mort sur la route du retour, accident, causer par un tier, je suis allée hélas plusieurs fois as ypres, mais hélas a l hôpital a la morgue, personnel très très gentil,.... Ypres ce que j ai pu voir très jolie petite ville.. L accident c est passé le 5 09 21 au alentour de 18 h... Quand j ai vu cette vidéo j ai eu les larmes aux yeux ça m'a fait revenir à cette journée du dimanche 5 septembre 2021.... Paix à toute ces personnes 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🌟🌟🌟🌟😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏🙏
So so sad to hear this, you have my full condolences ❤
They died for us to live
No such memorial for the dead of the battle of Kut many of whom died on a forced starvation March,as did my grandfather in 1916.British and Indian troop fought the Turks while help from home was denied.
Every year the UK honours Belgian war dead. The Belgian army is the only foreign army allowed to parade with arms through central London.
They march near the cenotaph and last year was the 85th time.
Indeed sir , the only foreingn army , respect foor the Britch , grts from Bemgain
everyone around the world felt loss when she passed ....some trolls will disagree no matter ;)
100%. AGREE 👍🏻🇬🇧👑🇬🇧👑🇬🇧
Some things in this world seem confusing, we might disagree on politics for example. Some hate the EU but "love Europe", some love the EU but want to reform. But when it comes to war, all our soldiers died facing the same way; towards hatred and evil. I hope the world knows, by the sacrifice of millions of our sons and daughters lost in WW1 and WW2, if faced with the same evil, and our universal values of brotherhood, freedom and justice are challenged by evil, today's sons and daughters will march in the same direction, and if that means laying next to Belgians, Frenchmen and Englishmen forever in the grounds of a European capital, then they will do so; forever facing the same way, towards evil and hate.
God rest yhe Queen Elizabeth....
Does anyone know the name of the lament played by the solo piper? It’s very moving.
my grandfather was a WW1 veteran he was a really nasty man he had shell shock and when he returned home he made his wife's and children life hell on earth i was born in 1958 he would be in his sixties and he never had a kind word to me he passed away in 1971 a very very angry man He would drink the family income and his wife struggled to keep house and home we have a view that all veterans were good men and in the real world a lot were not good men It is just a shame he came home from the war i am sorry to say
What is the Holden brand insignia doing there.
Moving
I wish our right wing press reported how our dead in 2 world wars are respected in France, Belgium and the Netherlands and paid tribute to more than some of our own establishments. Do these "news" papers and some of our extreme media ever report on the terrible cost of occupation. I live in France and have learnt how brutal the Nazi occupation was, I myself have seen places here in Brittany of executions of resistance fighters of both sexes as young as 16 took place. Yet now it seems now that these countries are our enemy, to fit in with a present political outlook. But in reality we have a long shared history some of it tragic some of it good and whether some in Britain wish it otherwise we are still part of Europe.
Well said, the average Joe does not matter in the scheme of things today with both government and big business. Time for a world revolution of the working class against the grubs
Been there a few times now, hearing the Canadians sing there national anthem? Well I piped my eye.
Grz frm 🇧🇪
Why the pipes and the kilts?
It’s a Celtic pipe band and their traditional dress/outfit.
@Suzanne Haigh - why not? Many Scottish regiments marched through the Menin Gate on their way to the front line, and many of their number never came home.
@@jackx4311 There is no reason not I just thought it would have represented others beside the Scottish
@@suzannehaigh4281 There were plenty of Englishmen in Scottish regiments.
@@alunwall1458 Still not representing them