ANZAC Day op Berks Cemetery Extension

ANZAC Day - Berks Cemetery Extension - Ploegsteert - 24/04/2025

Please find below some pictures of the ceremony on Berks Cemetery Extension at Ploegsteert on Thursday 24 April 2025, on the eve of ANZAC Day 2025.

The detailed programme was as follows:

MC: New Zealand Deputy Head of Mission Te Aniwa Setters

Official Party is led into the cemetery by flagbearers
MC welcome
Opening Prayer Reverend Richard Clement
Reading NZ Ambassador Troup
Hymn “It is well with my soul (When peace like a river)” sung by Lies Verholle
Wreath Laying:
- H.E. Jennifer Troup, New Zealand Ambassador to Belgium
- H.E. Angus Campbell, Australian Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg, NATO & EU
- Mme Alice Leeuwerck, Mayor of Comines-Warneton
- Colonel Lisa Kelliher, New Zealand Defence Force
- Air Vice-Marshal Di Turton, Australian Defence Force
- Major Michel Doyen, representing the Commandement Militaire de la Province de Hainaut
- Mr. Xavier Puppinck, Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- Mr. Francois Maekelberg, Alliance of Patriotic Associations – Comines-Warneton
- Members of the public
Ode of Remembrance
- Te Reo Ms. Te Aniwa Setters, New Zealand Deputy Head of Mission
- English Lieutenant Colonel Ken Martin, Australian Defence Force
- French Mr. François Maekelberg, Alliance of Patriotic Associations – Comines-Warneton
Last Post by Belgian Military Bugler
One Minute Silence
Reveille by Belgian Military Bugler
National anthems sung by Lies Verholle
- New Zealand
- Australia
- Belgium (French)
Final Blessing Reverend Richard Clement
Closing remarks MC
Group photo on Ploegsteert memorial steps