Please find below some pictures of the commemoration on the British cemetery Berks Cemetery Extension in Ploegsteert on Wednesday 24 April 2024. This commemoration took place on the eve of ANZAC Day 25 April 2024, the day on which the people from Australia and New Zealand remember the landing at Gallipoli in Turkey on 25 April 1915. 







Master of ceremony: Wing Commander Mike Parry







Prayer by Reverend Richard Clement



Captain Barnes gave more information on the cemetery.



The hymn 'Abide with me' by soprano Lies Verholle



Wreath laying by Diana Reach, Ambassador of New-Zealand





Caroline Millar; Ambassador of Australia



Mayor Alice Leeuwerck on behalf of the city of Komen-Waasten



CAPT James Barnes, New Zealand Defence Force





Lt Col Will Hitchen, Australian Defence Force





Colonel Guy Dobbelaere, Hainault Provincial Commander



Geert Bekaert on behalf od the Commonwealth War Graves Commission





The Exhortation in Maori, English and French







The Last Post





The national anthems of New Zealand and Belgium











Final prayer









Group picture




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