Op Drum - Menin Gate Ceremony

Recently paraded at the Menin Gate with the Royal Artillery Association Tyneside Scottish Branch. Lead by the Somme Battlefield Pipe Band, who included the Flanders Jocks in their ranks, we marched from the Grote Market upto the Gate. Heaton Manor (Tyneside Scottish) Detachment ACF.

The ceremony was as ever very moving. The exhortation  'For the Fallen' by L.Binyon being read by Colonel David Middleton Commandant Northumbria ACF.

Hearing Highland Cathederal echoing around the arches was excellent.

The march off entailed a counter march under the Menin Gate before marching back down the Meninstraat with the skirl of the pipes from Somme Battlefield Pipe Band playing on the road to Paschendaele.

A momentous occasion.

Last Post Association - 6th October 2012

Somme Battlefield Pipe Band lead the narch from the Grote Market

Menin Gate 6th October 2012

Somme Battlefield Pipe Band lead the march off