john stewart duncan played the last post at the menin gate.
john stewart duncan played the last post at the menin gate.
who plays the last post at the menin gate?
john stewart duncan
following the menin gate memorial opening in 1927, the citizens of ypres wanted to express their gratitude towards those who had given their lives for belgium's freedom. hence every evening at 20:00, buglers from the last post association close the road which passes under the memorial and sound the "last post". except for the occupation by the germans in world war ii when the daily ceremony was conducted at brookwood military cemetery, in surrey, england, this ceremony has been carried on uninterrupted since 2 july 1928. on the evening that polish forces liberated ypres in the second world war, the ceremony was resumed at the menin gate despite the fact that heavy fighting was still taking place in other parts of the town.
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antoon verschoot, , order of the crown (belgium) (ypres, 19 june 1925 - 1 february 2017) was a belgian firefighter and bugler who played the last post at the menin gate for many years.









































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on 12 december 2015, antoon verschoot played his last "last post" at the menin gate, after 65 years with the ypres/ieper fire brigade, which he joined in 1950. he became a bugler for the last post association in 1954 making him the oldest and longest serving bugler with the association. it is estimated that verschoot played at the gate over 15,000 times.









































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