2007-07-13

In Flanders' Fields


QE2 was in Flanders' Fields yesterday to commemorate World War I.
The Last Post was performed (for the 27079th time) in Ypres under the Menin Gate and a field visit to Passchendaele and Tyne Cot were on the programme. An aerial salute was flown by a squad of F16s accompanied by a 1917 Doubledecker which streamed poppies over the fields... Quite a strong statement of Remembrance