Market-Garden-Commemoration006 Nico Bakker playing bagpipes

Pictures at http://picasaweb.google.nl/HenkPeelen/MarketGarden20082009#
Saturday 19 September 2009: piper Nico Bakker plays some tunes at the Ginkel Heath, afther the ceremony of the 65th Market Garden Commemoration is finished.
The ceremony included
* speeches and prayers, laying wreaths, last post, silence and reveille, national anthems of Poland, England and Netherlands, including raising the concerning flags.
* re-enactment activities, historic cannons with horses and much more spectacular, about 1000 paratroopers from lots of countries but mostly from
UK: 4th & 1th Battalion The Parachute Regiment
NL: 11th luchtmobiele brigade, 13th infanteriebatlajon regiment stoottroepen Prins Bernhard, Assen
US, D, Be and Pathfinders: no exact information
Planes included C-130 Hercules and historic ones like Mitchell B-25, Dakota C-47 and Harvard
* lots of old historic vehicles, mostly four-wheels, sometimes two-wheel vehicles.
* more than Market Garden 140 veterans from the UK attended the 65th Commemoration

Thanks to God for sending deliverance.
Thanks to those who lost their lives for the victory. Rest in peace!

General (NL):
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginkelse_Heide
http://www.vvvveluwe.nl/index.php?lang=nl
http://www.ede.nl/
http://www.veteraneninstituut.nl/page/pag_view.asp?pag_id=22584
UK:
1th + 4th Par. Reg.: http://www.eliteukforces.info/parachute-regiment/
1th Par. Reg. (Spec. Forc. = SFSG): http://www.eliteukforces.info/sfsg/
4th Par. Reg.: https://www.4para.co.uk/
http://www.eliteukforces.info/parachute-regiment/4-para/
http://www.army.mod.uk/infantry/regiments/4632.aspx
NL:
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/11_Luchtmobiele_Brigade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11_Luchtmobiele_Brigade
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regiment_Stoottroepen_Prins_Bernhard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regiment_Stoottroepen_Prins_Bernhard
http://www.skhv.nl/frameset.html
http://www.skhv.nl/frameset_en.html


http://airborne-herdenkingen.nl/
http://airbornefeelings.nl/
http://www.airbornemuseum.org/language/en


WWII, general:
http://www.battledetective.com/links.html
http://www.market-garden.info/

Category:

Music

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• Market
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• Commemoration
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• pipes
• and
• drums
• herdenking
• slag
• om
• Arnhem
• een
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• ver
• doedelzak
• Dudelsack
• Ginkel
• Heath
• Ginkelse
• heide

[SapperK9]

A kilted Scot playing a tribute and lament for the hell of it. If you cry not, remember not my father..

Wonderful!