THE MUNICIPALITY AND FIRE SERVICE OF YPRES

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That this House pays tribute to, thanks and congratulates the fire service personnel in Ypres, Belgium, who on the evening of Thursday 9 July 2015 played the Last Post at the Menin Gate for the 30,000th time; and notes that this act of remembrance and dedication by the fire brigade in Ypres has occurred almost continuously since 1928 and is a great tribute to the fallen servicemen who died in the First World War and whose names are commemorated on the Menin Gate.