Please find below some pictures of ANZAC Day at Messines on 25 April 2025.
The programme was as follows
Official Party arrives at NZ Memorial, welcomed by Mayor Sandy Evrard
- Official Party is led into the memorial park by flag bearers
- MC: Ms. Te Aniwa Setters, New Zealand Deputy Head of Mission
- Welcome speech by H.E. Jennifer Troup, New Zealand Ambassador to Belgium
- Hymn “Hoea Rä Te Waka Nei” sung by Lies Verholle
- Youth Readings Representative of the youth of Belgium/NZ
- Opening Prayer by Reverend Richard Clement
- Wreath Laying:
- H.E. Jennifer Troup, New Zealand Ambassador to Belgium
- H.E. Angus Campbell, Australian Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg, NATO & EU
- Mr. Sandy Evrard, Mayor of Messines
- Colonel Lisa Kelliher, New Zealand Defence Force
- Air Vice-Marshal Dianne Turton, Australian Defence Force
- Lieutenant Colonel Isabelle Lahaye, West Flanders Commander
- Ms. Rebecca Jonassen, NZ Customs Service and Mr. Niall Kerr, Australian Border Force simultaneously
- Mr. Xavier Puppinck, Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- Members of the public
- Ode of Remembrance
- Te Reo Ms. Rebecca Jonassen, NZ Customs Service
- English Colonel Lisa Kelliher, New Zealand Defence Force
- Dutch Mr. Sandy Evrard, Mayor of Messines
- Last Post by the Mesen Buglers
- One Minute Silence
- Rouse by the Mesen Buglers
- National anthems sung by Lies Verholle
- Final Blessing Reverend Richard Clement
- MC makes announcement for public to move to Nga Tapuwae sign for NZ Pilgrimage Trust Battle of Messines overview
Commemoration ends, Mayor and Official Party depart for town square
- Wreath laying at Municipal War Memorial
- H.E. Jennifer Troup, New Zealand Ambassador to Belgium and Colonel Lisa Kelliher, New Zealand Defence Force, lay a joint wreath
- Mr. Sandy Evrard, Mayor of Messines lays one wreath
- H.E. Angus Campbell, Australian Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg, NATO & EU and Air Vice-Marshal Dianne Turton, Australian Defence Force lay a joint wreath
- Wreath laying at Sgt Kiwi
- H.E. Jennifer Troup, New Zealand Ambassador to Belgium and Colonel Lisa Kelliher, New Zealand Defence Force, lay a joint wreath
- Mr. Sandy Evrard, Mayor of Messines lays one wreath
- H.E. Angus Campbell, Australian Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg, NATO & EU and Air Vice-Marshal Dianne Turton, Australian Defence Force lay a joint wreath
Afternoon tea
- Speech by Mr. Sandy Evrard, Mayor of Messines
- Speech by H.E. Jennifer Troup, New Zealand Ambassador to Belgium (on behalf of Australia and New Zealand)
- Gift Exchange
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