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November 11 Celebration at Saint-Charles de Potyze - Ieper - 11/11/2017
Armistic Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiège, France (1918), for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I. 
Memorials take place throughout the country. Similarly at Saint-Charles de Potyze, the largest French Miliary cemetery in Flanders.

The ceremony in images.
 
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Buglers of the Last Post Association

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Prayer

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Wreath Laying

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Speech by the President of the Royal Entente Ypres

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Speech by Mr. Jacques Desmet, president of the veteran association of Neuville-en-Ferrain

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Aux morts, Marseillaise

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Flags greeting the monument

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After the ceremony, the attendees could get a coffee with or without alcohool

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Page made by IDG, Dominique Bascour, Patrick Sennesael and Daphné Vangheluwe
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