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The Duke of Edinburgh has marked the Armistice Day by laying a wreath on Monday in the Belgian town of Ypres in the commemoration of tens of thousands of Commonwealth soldiers who died during World War I.
Prince Philip, 92, who fought in the Royal Navy in World War II, attended the Last Post ceremony in Belgium. He was then provided with 70 bags of earth scraped by Belgian schoolchildren of soil from cemeteries across the Flanders region which were then carried through the Menin Gate, a Flanders town ruined during the war.
Afterwards, the bags were placed on a horse carriage before leaving for London where the soil will be used to build a memorial garden.
The Last Post aims to dedicate 54,896 British and Commonwealth soldiers who died in the Ypres Salient but whose bodies have never been identified or recovered.
The Duke’s hand written dedication on the wreath stated: “From the senior Colonel and all guardsman – Never Forget.”
The names of those soldiers with unknown graves are engraved on the walls of the Menin Gate memorial, built on one of the roads leaving the town towards the former front line.
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