Monthly Archives: July 2007

Last Post sounds again at Passchendaele but no old comrades are there to hear it

Posted in WW1 in the News

 

From The Times
July 12, 2007
David Charter
The Queen presided over a perennial military ceremony with a difference yesterday – the first major Passchendaele memorial with no veterans of the Great War present.
In a significant year in the history of the remembrance service, there were no survivors of the horror of the slaughter near Ypres that [...]