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ANZAC Day Berks Cemetery Extension - Ploegsteert - 24/04/2024
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ANZAC Day Berks Cemetery Extension - Ploegsteert - 24/04/2024
24/04/2024 - Ploegsteert
Please find below some pictures of the commemoration on the British cemetery
Berks Cemetery Extension
in Ploegsteert on Wednesday 24 April 2024. This commemoration took place on the eve of ANZAC Day 25 April 2024, the day on which the people from Australia and New Zealand remember the landing at Gallipoli in Turkey on 25 April 1915.
Master of ceremony: Wing Commander Mike Parry
Prayer by Reverend Richard Clement
Captain Barnes gave more information on the cemetery.
The hymn 'Abide with me' by soprano Lies Verholle
Wreath laying by Diana Reach, Ambassador of New-Zealand
Caroline Millar; Ambassador of Australia
Mayor Alice Leeuwerck on behalf of the city of Komen-Waasten
CAPT James Barnes, New Zealand Defence Force
Lt Col Will Hitchen, Australian Defence Force
Colonel Guy Dobbelaere, Hainault Provincial Commander
Geert Bekaert on behalf od the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The Exhortation in Maori, English and French
The Last Post
The national anthems of New Zealand and Belgium
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Group picture
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