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Every evening since 1928, at precisely eight o'clock, the Last
Post - the traditional salute to the fallen warrior - has been played
under the Menin Gate in Leper (Ypres) Belgium.
On 31 October this year, the 25,000th Last Post was sounded.
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collaboration with the 'In Flanders Fields' Museum, has organised
a year-long commemorative event. Every evening between 31 October
2001 and 31 October 2002 the Last Post will be played in the honour
of the memory of a British (and Empire) serviceman who perished in
the grim fields around Ieper, fighting for the causes of peace and
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Linked to this daily act of remembrance, a double exhibition in
the 'In Flanders Fields' Museum in the Cloth Hall and in Ieper Town
Hall is providing further information about the servicemen concerned.
Throughout the year in the foyer of the Town Hall a series of panels
(which will change on a weekly basis) will be displayed, which will
give details of the lives and the deaths of the individual soldiers.
The soldiers concerned are named under the Menin Gate prior to the
Last Post played each evening in their honour.
The 365 names chosen for this commemorative event represent a broad
cross section of the Army of Great Britain and her Empire between
1914-1918. Following soldiers of former Regiments of The Royal Regiment
of Wales will be commemorated during the year on the anniversary
of their death:
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- 29 December 2001 Private Roger PUGH (Brecon)
3rd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment
- 13 February 2002 Private Herbert WOODWARD (Cwmbran)
6th Battalion South Wales Borderers
- 16 February 2002 Lieutenant Hilary Gresford EVAN-JONES (Newtown)
Welch Regiment
- 20 February 2002 Captain Vivian Holmes WATKINS (Pontypool)
2nd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment
- 8 May 2002 Captain Harold Thorne EDWARDS (Newport)
1st Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment
- 22 June 2002 Lieutenant Cadwallader John COKER (Bath)
1st Battalion Welch Regiment
- 24 July 2002 2/Lieutenant David JONES (Felinfach)
Brecknock Battalion South Wales Borderers
- 19 August 2002 Lieutenant Ernest Aloysius FRENCH (London)
2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers
- 26 August 2002 Major William Orlando JONES (Pontypridd)
10th Battalion South Wales Borderers
- 29 August 2002 Private Fred REACHER MM (Derby)
6th Battalion South Wales Borderers
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