Editing Last Post (section)

==Menin Gate==

[[File:Last Post plaque Ypres.JPG|thumb|left|Last Post plaque, [[Menin Gate]], [[Ypres]], [[Belgium]]]]
[[File:Last Post Ypres 2018-11-11.ogg|thumb|Special ceremony in Ypres for the centenary of the armistice. A version of the Last Post at the Menin Gate is played exceptionally at 11am]]

Since 1928, the "Last Post" has been sounded every evening at 8 p.m. by buglers of the local Last Post Association at the war memorial at [[Ypres]] in [[Belgium]] known as the [[Menin Gate]], commemorating the dead at the [[Ypres Salient|Battle of Ypres]] during the [[World War I|First World War]]. The only exception to this was during the four years of the [[German occupation of Belgium during World War II|German occupation of Ypres]] from 20 May 1940 to 6 September 1944, when the ceremony moved to [[Brookwood Cemetery#Brookwood Military Cemetery and memorials|Brookwood Military Cemetery]] in [[England]].

On the evening that [[Polish Armed Forces in the West|Polish forces]] liberated Ypres, the ceremony was resumed at the [[Menin Gate]], in spite of the heavy fighting still going on in other parts of the town. These buglers or trumpeters, sometimes seen in fire brigade uniform, are members of the fire brigade representing the Last Post Association, who organizes the events. The Last Post Association uses both silver B♭ bugles and E♭ cavalry trumpets, with either British Army tradition being respected during services at the gate.

The Last Post ceremony has now been held more than 30,000 times. On 9 July 2015, a ceremony titled ''A tribute to the tribute''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lastpost.be/en/news/66/30000th-last-post-a-tribute-to-the-tribute |title=Last Post Association |date=10 November 2014 |publisher=lastpost.be |access-date=2014-12-02}}</ref> took place to commemorate the 30,000th ceremony.