Menin Gate 30,000th sounding of Last Post

On the 9th July 2016 the Last Post was sounded at the Menin Gate for the 30,000th time.

Thanks to @GeertBourgeois & @CWGC for their support for #lastpostieper app - See you tonight. http://t.co/C3QJcjBzEQ pic.twitter.com/EVz7VKYvcn

— Last Post Ass. Ieper (@lastpostieper) July 9, 2015

As part of the commemoration of the milestone the Last Post Association have developed an app, issued an brochure and published a book. The main picture for each of these features the Last Post Ceremony of Saturday 6th October 2012. On parade were the Tyneside Scottish Branch Royal Artillery Association, Tyneside Scottish Cadets from Northumbrian ACF, led by the Somme Battlefield Pipe Band.

Op Drum - Menin Gate Ceremony 

 

Last Post Association app entry screen

Last Post app 

Last Post Association Book
Somme Battlefield Pipe Band and Tyneside Scottish on parade

Last Post Association book: The Last Post, 30,000 daily tributes to the fallen of the Great War

Order the book

Last Post Association Supporting Material

Brochure Last Post Association

Exhortation & Kohima

On parade at the Menin Gate
Somme Battlefield Pipe Band and Tyneside Scottish RAA

Tyneside Scottish RAA on parade

On parade at the Menin Gate