On Tuesday June 7th 2016, a tribute was done to the Tankies af the British tank units who fell in the Ypres Salient in 1917. The, yearly,
ceremony was held at the Tank Memorial at Poelkapelle at the Guynemer Square. The, annual, ceremony was an initiative of the Tank Memorial Ypres Salient.Later that evening the Tank Memorial Ypres Salient attended Last Post at Ieper's Menin Gate.



Everybody present at the beginning of the ceremony.



The color party, amongst them the TMYS standard and those of the RBL, and different divisions of the Royal Entente Ieper.



Color party and piper Pierre Dervaux (YSP&D)



TMYS chairman Chris Lock opens the ceremony telling the storie of the1917 tankies.





A view on Guynemer square during the ceremony



The public and official representatives.





TMYS Chairman Chris Lock



Standard bearer of the TMYS, Wayne Evans



Prayer by Rev. Bryan Llewellyn



Piper Pierre Dervaux (Ypres Surrey Pipes and Drums)



Bugler Ronnie Loof plays the Last Post



Tribute by the color party during the Last Post.





The "Ode of Remembrance".



The Torch of remembrance (GB) at the Tank Memorial



Piper Pierre Dervaux plays the Lament.



Silent tribute to the fallen





Wreaths by

• West Flanders Military Commander on behalf of the Belgian military.
• The Mayors office of Langemark-Poelkapelle.
• The Mayors office Ypres.
• The RBL Ypres Branch.
• The RBL Scotland Passchendaele Branch.
• The British Torch of Remembrance Belgium Branch.
• The NATO Memorial Frethun, France.
• The TANK MEMORIAL YPRES SALIENT & it's Friends organisation. 

Reciting the Kohima epitaph



Closing the ceremony by Chris Lock, TMYS



Wreaths and poppy crosses at the memorial



The Torch of Remembrance (GB)



A chat afterwards



Information panel at the memorial





The wreath of the Tank Memorial Ypres Salient



TMYS Chairman Chris Lock and his wife Milena Kolarikova at the memorial



Authentic part of the British 1917 Mark IV tank

After the ceremony, the party attended the daily Last Post under the Menin Gate at Ieper



Standard bearer of the TMYS, Wayne Evans



the color party of different Belgian and French veteran organisations, the RBL and the TMYS





The Last Post is being played



The colors lower with respect





The 'Ode of Remembrance' by Dr. Brandon Nelson, director of the  Australian War Museum



The TMYS ready to lay a wreath









Flags up when the Rouse is bein played











The TMYS wreath at Ieper's Menin Gate



The shoulder emblem of the British tank units.

THEY ARE NOT FORGOTTEN.  Page made by Frank Mahieu.