The other night I was looking at Youtube videos from the Menin Gate, the magnificent monument put up in the Belgian town of Ypres/Ieper to commemorate the many missing British and Commonwealth soldiers from the terrible battles there during the First World War.

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Every evening at the Menin Gate, the local Last Post Association holds a little ceremony playing The Last Post to remember the 54,395 Commonwealth soldiers whose names are engraved on the monument.*

Bigger events are sometimes held at which military bands and civilian choirs perform to accompany relatives and regimental representatives laying wreaths of remembrance at a special place within this magnificent space.

The other night I found a short two-minute video from one of these events in 2017. It is of terrible quality visually, but it had me blabbing like a baby.

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