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Unveiling Christmas Truce monument - Mesen - 22/12/2015
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Unveiling Christmas Truce monument - Mesen - 22/12/2015
22/12/2015 - Mesen
Please find below some photos of the unveiling of the Christmas Truce Monument at Messines. The inauguration took place on Tuesday, 22 December 2015 on the market square of Messines.
The model of the monument had already been at Messines during the
Christmas period of 2014
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From left to right: German Ambassador Rüdiger Lüdeking, mayor Sandy Evrard and British Ambassador Alison Rose.
Minister-president Geert Bourgeois of Flanders was also present.
Unveiling.
The artists who made the monument.
Speeches by Sany Evrard, mayor of Messines,
Chris Butler, the artist,
British Ambassador Alison Rose,
German Ambassador Rüdiger Lüdeking,
and Geert Bourgeois, minister-president of Flanders.
Exchange of gifts.
Time for the reception.
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