VE-Day 2025: Speech

08/05/2025 – Speech by Patrick Donck, director of the Last Post Association Commemorative Speech – 80 Years Since the End of the Second World War Dames en heren,Ladies and gentlemen, Vandaag 80 jaar geleden kwam er een einde aan de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Europa maar liet een nog groter spoor van menselijk leed na dan […]
ANZAC Day 2025: speech

Address by Benoit Mottrie, Chairman of the Last Post Association Burgemeester, Excellenties, Distinguished Guests, Members of the Armed Forces, Veterans, and families, ladies and gentlemen, We gather here today, beneath the solemn arch of the Menin Gate. To remember. To honor. To reflect. This place – carved with the names of more than 54,000 soldiers who […]
110th anniversary of the first gas attack

Address by Benoit Mottrie, Chairman of the Last Post Association Commemorating the Fallen of the Commonwealth and the 110th Anniversary of the First Gas Attack Ladies and Gentlemen, Each evening, we gather here in this sacred place to honour the fallen of the Commonwealth – those who gave their lives in the First World War […]