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Please find below the latest news items published by the Last Post Association.

Visit of the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia
On 04/06/2013 The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, Her Excellency the Honourable Quentin Bryce AC CVO, attended the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin

Belgian buglers’ nightly tribute to Flanders fallen
By ABC News Australia Every night at 8:00pm, the haunting sounds of the bugle playing the Last Post can be heard from the Menin Gate

Reburial New Zealand soldier
At Messines Ridge British Cemetery Please find here the link to the short movie made by Philip Vanoutrive on the reburial of the New Zealand soldier at Messines

A delegation of the Last Post Association travels to Australia for Armistice 2012
Visits to Melbourne and Canberra On Tuesday, November 6th, 2012, a delegation of the Ypres’ Last Post Association will travel to Melbourne, Australia. The delegation

CWGC will replace name panels
Panels at section 34 Commonwealth War Graves CommissionYpres Menin Gate Memorial Work will commence on 7 May 2012 to replace the name panels at section

Anzac Day 2012
Traditionally on 25th April, the day of the landing in Gallipoli, the Australian and New Zealand communities remember the fallen of their countries during the

Governor General of Canada
His Excellency the Right Honourable David Lloyd Johnston, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief in and over Canada attended the Last Post ceremony on Sunday, April, 8th,

Christophe Wils: How I became bugler
A very good friend whom I have known since childhood was a member of the youth fire brigade, then going on to follow a course

The Last Post ceremony: cultural heritage
In June 2011, The Last Post Association received a positive answer for withholding the Last Post ceremony at Ieper on the Flemish Inventory for Immaterial