Ypres / Tyne Cot / Menin Gate - The Last Post Ceremony

[WalsallWatchMaster]

Wonderful. Thank you.

[flamingsparrow114]

went their with my school and i found my name on the wall was very emotional 

[slaphead10]

A sad film but one that fills you with pride, visited the Bradford City and Avenue players graves this year and will visit the Bradford Pals next year.

You really should visit at least once in your lives.

[UKBedders]

I went to Ypres, the Menin Gate, Tyne Cot, Langemark (german cemetary also in Belgium) and Hill 62 (I think that was the number, but it was the one pictured in the video). I went there 5 years ago, and was deeply moved then. This video brings back so many memories. Thanks for sharing your experiences.

RIP to all who gave their lives in all confilicts, on all sides. You will be sorely missed by someone, somewhere.

[fairmount1935]

The Menin Gate ceremony is the most moving experiences for the few left who remember this entirely forgotten generations of young souls, young kids 19 and 20, who died in WW1.

An entire generation of British, French, German and Australians died in vain in a war of hell on earth that , in the end, amounted to a waste of an entire generation. It was all politics and politicians. What a pity.

Lions led by donkeys.

[MrCountryboy58]

Can i stop crying now,my grandfather name is on the gate.Wonderful video

[atomicbangtv]

Im playing this year woooo



[ccclllsport]

I'm 17 and i have a great grandad who is buried in belgium, i want to go see his grave, just as a way of thanks

[Mazza4Azza]

@ccclllsport

Do you know the name of the cemetery?

[reinoutPC]

beautiful video! RIP

[LESSERLOSER]

i went to the menin gate yesterday, and i was asked to put a reef down just like the two men did at 3:56 of this clip, at first i was really nervous because there were hundreds of people watching but i thought of the reason why i was putting this reef down and it was to remember those who died in the first world war, so it was really worth it and it was such an honour and a good experiance to do it and im only 16.

[denholm10]

thanks for postin the video.. i'm going here in april to be in the last post parade with the army

[diabolo1956]

Thanks for sharing this video.

[swborderer]

Well done - outstanding piece!

[BelgianIronLorrie]

nice film

[cle4manu]

Nice to see all the memory's coming back, last year i went to Menin Gate nd most of the memorial in northern france and belgium including ypres with my school shtc. Great experience love to do it again great video. Also i went to the trenchs at the end of the video.

[cle4manu]

Nice to see all the memory's coming back, last year i went to Menin Gate nd most of the memorial in northern france and belgium including ypres with my school shtc. Great experience love to do it again great video. Also i went to the trenchs at the end of the video.

[kareldezesde]

great video!

[jerdijk]

very well done!

[jerdijk]

I've seen a lot of amateur documentaries about the WW1 in Flandres, here at youtube. This is one of the best. Very well done!

[totalyruben]

went with the army to see this never thought so much about how much we owe to these soldiers

[scotsa23]

i am a bugler / trumpeter myself and i really don't think these men are very good...

[seamonkey41]

nice to see the yorkshire trench being visited on the beginning of the film thank you

[CheapAssFilmsHull]

as a Yorkshireman myself I had to visit there, even though I had a bit of trouble finding it hidden in the middle of an industrial estate!

[michiel1551]

@CheapAssFilmsHull I know right, it was quite troublesome to find, since there were no big signs indicating the spot in the estate.

[ToM2kWooT]

@CheapAssFilmsHull Yes, when I went to Beligum we had trouble finding it, also, the menin gate, when I laid my wreath, it was the most moving thing I've ever had the honour of participating in. i liked this video and will surely notify you when my videos are up.

[ANTOONMAKA]

60.000 hommes sans sépultures "décentes" et tius les Autres. Tyne cote est un lieu de Mémoire ON NE LES OUBLIE PAS! "In Flanders fields blox the poppies... J. Mc Crea à Essex Farm en '15"

[gincarnated]

What's the first musical piece?

[CheapAssFilmsHull]

Its all taken from the Band of Brothers soundtrack, apart from the music the military band plays, and the Last Post, obviously!

[JimFishwick]

We visited Ypres in September, and were moved by the experience. Your film caught the mood perfectly and was so very well done. Thank You for sharing it with us.

[transonicbuoy1]

Is this a professional band?

[mischabismygf]

R.I.P all the men that died for king and country with honour....both side of the war

[antoireland09]

All the brave catholic irish men who fought and died for the freedom of humanity, i salute you.

[welsh443]

I went there on a school trip yesterday it was really disturbing. 12,000 graves most without names. 35,000 names of the missing never found. god bless them!

[tomsowell51]

Well done film on the bloodiest and costliest use of lives in World War 1. Great use of Band of Brothers Music.

[rugbyboy1350]

i love this im only 17 but my grandad died in that war and it it quite touching god bless all them good me that die in our honour

[nickyschopsnickyscho]

Beautiful! As a trumpetplayer, I play 'The Last Post' each year, over and over again in my village. I'm only 19 years old, and I never saw war, but.. Respect for all those soldiers!

[stealthy111]

RIP and honour to all British, Canadian, Flemish and all other troops who died in Flanders Fields to preserve the freedom we, the Flemish people, now enjoy each day. We can never repay the ones who stood and fell, protecting us. May your souls find rest...

[thyuiooo]

very moving my great great uncle died at gallipoli 1915

[ANTOONMAKA]

Comment pourrions-nous oublier? Ma Paix soit avec Eux!

[rikuk3]

Wonderful stuff, my Grand Father died March 1918.

[Borat911]

It seems the Belgian people are realy grateful for the British helping them out !! It's nice to see such respect and honoring of these graves and memorials !!

[TheSirRoberto]

@Borat911 its not just the british alone, it was her empire aswell and 100% agree with you there mate :) :) 

[MegaCharlieDelta]

@Borat911 : Many thanks for your compliment! We are indeed grateful for the help. In honour of every brave soldier and civilian.

[tallestontheright]

went through this area as a young man in the 70s and saw a local tending graves and though i didnt speak french just helped him pull a few weeds and shook his hand thankfully my grandfather survived. only after my marriage did i find out that my wife lost two uncles in flanders.

some day we will go back

we will remember them

[mutn414]

uhm in Ypres we don't speak french......, it's dutch...

[sosyermum1]

I have just got back from a trip were i visited all the graves and memorials in france and belgium and went to the Last Post ceremony and it is amazing. The atmosphere and the beauty of it all is great it is quite depresing though to comemorate all the dead soldiers who gave us what we have today.

[raggedclown]

This is one of the best things I've found on youtube.

The beauty of the natural scenes at the start of the film make the ceremony more poignant.

R.I.P. Harry Patch, the last Tommy who served in the trenches of WWI, who died today.

[cpthardon]

Just got back from here last night on a school trip. and remember all of this. it realy is upsetting :( especially if you find a relative.

[c00per69]

we love him, Because he loved us first !

[Omgthisisbad1]

I grew up in Ypres, well i still am :p

For me all of this has become normal, the Last Post, the cathedral etc.

Tell me is it beautifull when u get there for the first time or is it just a city?

[fuckgoodaccountnames]

hey, i recently got back from a school trip to visit the battlefields and cemetaries and graves of the lost etc, and ypres and the last post were the both amazing experiences. all of it was amazing, but it was beautiful in the city and even just driving around in the coach with my friends and our tour guide/teachers really made it something special. it was a brilliant experience for me and i loved it.

[Omgthisisbad1]

:P Nice to know

[tomo44139]

It is a beautiful city!

[gert83]

Well, it is a beautiful town, but for we Brits it's our Verdun. I don't know if I believe in inherited memories or reincarnation, but I felt serious depression throughout my life until I visited and saw my great uncle's name on the gate and visited his brother's grave. I suppose I met the surviving brother when I was very young, but he never spoke, although he was missing a couple of fingers and was a very angry man!

I felt better after visiting - the first in my family to do so..

[firthy2k7]

same as bristolcityboii it was great

[bristolcityboii]

Just got back from the same trip yesterday and i am truly touched by the experience, all the soldiers who fought in the war, friend or foe, should live on in our memory forever more- nobody braver or as noble as a soldier willing to give up their life for their country.

R.I.P

[2504marcus]

returned 6 days ago, my grandfather fought in ypres and somme ,wounded 3times but was one of the lucky ones, my very existence is testament to that.i was overwhelmed at the sheer numbers of dead. a most sobreing experience.i still feel quite numb.menin gate was incredibly moving. LEST WE FORGET!.

[jimmythecool911]

BEEN THERE.. RIP

NICE FOOD THO...

[Diablo1040]

ive been on this trip a few years ago with school. there is nothing more moving than the last post at the menin gate. really a fantastic experience, i recomend to anyone

[JimDuff99]

Great video! Having also been there myself and parading through Ypres to the Menin Gate, I know what an emotional place it is.

[dinger11]

I've just been on a trip with my class to belgium and all of those places.. Was truley amazing to see the sights and hard hitting to be told of them

[adhami0149]

Great Video, i was honoured yesterday on the 2/4/09 to actually take part in the ceremony by walking and putting the poppies down it just makes you think where would we be without them, and what they have done for us. R.I.P

[spuddyGBB]

amazing video i visited all them sights with my regiment the fusiliers every sight has something about it ,it just makes you think and the last post at menin gate makes the hairs on your neck stand up

[SLwootwootUK]

for people who have been/are going to see the battlefields and cemetries of ypres, you should defintely go first to tyne cot followed by langemarck cemetry. absolute contrast which is mind-blowing.

[keirfree]

To all those that remember, celebrate the memory of those men, that fell in this most horrific of wars, Thank You, esp the Belgians.

[earzs00000]

nice to see the rlc band playing

[mikmertens09]

Well made, with respect, as it should be.

[rabengeraun]

Went to Ypres last month on school trip (as a member of teaching staff); whole thing shakes you up. Is this what the human race needs to stop its undending greed, consumerism and paucity absence of spirituality?

[gert83]

unfortunately rabengeraun I think we are a few credit crunches away from the day when we'll recognise the seeds of our own destruction, still, we live and learn.....

Everybody should see this place, or Verdun, or a concentration camp.......

[FingolfinDargorath]

It's beautiful...

[jerdijk]

very well done a favorite

[Unklian]

After being taught crappy "Modern" history at school, I new little about the Great War.I first visited Belgium 12 years ago and stumbled upon the Last Post Ceremony whilst on a Motorcycle Rally. I have visited Belgium on an annual basis since and have been to all the places in your (very nicely made) video and many other battle sites. Tyne Cot, the Yorkshire Trench and especially, the Menin Gate leave a lasting impression on all those who visit.

[Dracci3]

Fantastic video, just got back from there myself, very moving ceremony at the Menin gate in Ypres. God bless all those who served and gave their lives so that we could live ours.

[tallguy932k8]

actually I went to all five of those places in the last few days

[stinkey85]

as did i, its so emtional seeing all of teh graves at tyne cot and listening to the last post

[tallguy932k8]

omg i went to those trenches a couple of days ago

[rje888]

Fantastic film very well made and very moving. We will remember them.