Eyewitness Tours

22/09/2023

33,000th / 33.000e Last Post - 25/09/2023

On Monday 25 September 2023, the buglers of the Last Post Association - Last Post Ieper - will sound their 33,000th daily tribute to the fallen of the Great War at the Menin Gate in Ypres. We will continue to remember them.

Op maandag 25 september 2023 zullen de klaroeners van de Last Post Association - Last Post Ieper - voor de 33.000e maal de Last Post laten weerklinken aan de Menenpoort in Ieper als eerbetoon aan de gesneuvelden van de Groote Oorlog. We zullen hen blijven herdenken.

Last Post Association Ieper - www.lastpost.be, https://www.facebook.com/lastpostieper, https://www.instagram.com/lastpostassociation, https://twitter.com/lastpostieper
https://www.youtube.com/

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16/09/2023

We ensure those who died in service or conflict are commemorated so that they are remembered forever.

11/08/2023

📍Rossignol Wood Cemetery 🇫🇷

Discover more: https://ow.ly/mxpW50PsE6M

📷 Our Guide Jeremy

27/07/2023

The Guild of Battlefield Guides - your first choice for accredited battlefield guides, and for validation as a professional battlefield guide.

21/07/2023

The roses are looking beautiful at Tilly-sur-Seulles War Cemetery, France.

Congratulations to our gardeners for achieving such a spectacular bloom.

05/07/2023

03/07/2023

02/07/2023

22/06/2023

Feathered visitors at Ramparts Cemetery (Lille Gate) in Ieper.

Thank you to Thiepval guide Estelle for the photo.

22/06/2023

The newly installed war grave of Private Joseph Bowmer of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry.

Joseph was 27 when he died 14 February, 1919.

He lies in our care in Stapleford Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.

13/06/2023

Good morning from Gourock Trench Cemetery in Arras 🇫🇷

03/06/2023

Spring flowers in bloom at Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery, France.

📷 Steve Chambers

28/05/2023

This week we inaugurated the newly restored Chinese memorial at our cemetery in Saint-Etienne au Mont near Boulogne-sur-Mer in the Pas-de-Calais in France.

No.2 Native Labour General Hospital was posted to Etienne-au-Mont from 1917 to 1919 and the communal cemetery contains burials from that hospital, mostly men of the Chinese Labour Corps:

http://ow.ly/t0uP50Oxslu

28/05/2023

📌Flowers on display at Tannay British Cemetery, France.

17/05/2023

Our fantastic staff out working hard in Lahana Military Cemetery, 🇬🇷

13/05/2023

More than a century after his death, Private Robert Kenneth Malcolm, a 23 year-old stretcher bearer from Stockton-on-Tees, has finally been laid to rest with full military honours at our Bedford House Cemetery in Belgium

The burial service was organised by the MOD’s Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre (JCCC), also known as the ‘MOD War Detectives’. His unidentified remains were recovered from a shell hole outside a German blockhouse in Fusilier Wood, near Klein-Zillebeke, Belgium in 2019. Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) insignia and a ‘Medical Orderly’ cloth patch were also recovered, indicating the soldier may have been a stretcher bearer.

After extensive research carried out by JCCC and DNA testing, the remains were identified as Pte Malcolm, who was reported missing on 6 August 1917 – believed killed during shelling. With no remains recovered at the time of his death, he had been commemorated on the Menin Gate.

28/04/2023

19/04/2023

Dury Communal Cemetery, France, where we care for the grave of Lance Corporal Arthur Daniel Kibble who died 31 August in 1944, aged 35 years old. He is the only Commonwealth casualty buried in this cemetery.

His personal inscription reads:
EVER REMEMBERED BY HIS LOVING SON ALBERT

18/03/2023

Polish graves that we maintain at Edinburgh (Corstorphine Hill) Cemetery, Scotland.

18/03/2023

The horticultural works at Cassino War Cemetery, Italy, have come to an end and it is looking beautiful.

Our thanks to our Belgian and Italian teams for their hard work in this important sustainability project.

17/03/2023

11/03/2023

Good morning from our Leopoldsburg War Cemetery in Belgium.

Thank you to our Area Director Geert for the photo.

10/03/2023

Thank you to British Ambassador to Russia, Deborah Bronnert, for laying a wreath in Vladivostok in honour of those we commemorate there.

03/03/2023

📍 Glasgow Western Necropolis, Scotland.

The Necropolis contains 359 World War One burials and 124 World War Two are scattered throughout the cemetery.

Learn more on our website here: https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/2000488/glasgow-western-necropolis/

26/02/2023

The grave of Daniel Sinclair in South Queensferry Cemetery, whose personal inscription reads:

IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE.
AFTER 4 1/2 YEARS
IN CAPTIVITY,
NOW AT REST
"TILL WE MEET AGAIN"

South Queensferry Cemetery contains 180 World War One burials, almost all of them naval. There are also eight burials of World War Two.