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English: The morning sun falls across the names of those commemorated on 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 UK’s own ceremony of Remembrance at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, today stood proudly at the Menin Gate “Last Post” 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 minute’s 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. As the 70 sandbags were stacked in place, The Band of the Coldstream Guards played Elgar”s “Nimrod” and Henry Purcell’s “When I am laid in Earth Remember Me” from Dido and Aen
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