The Last Post has been sounded here every night since the end of WWI, other than during WWII and it is quite a moving experience. There is usually a crowd and many may be visiting ex and serving military people, families of those lost and others. The night we went, there was a large contingent of Indian people, young and old, whose leader gave prayers for those lost before they and others laid wreaths. There were visiting British Legion personnel, with band who also took part in the ceremony.
On the gate are inscribed the names of some 58,000 Missing, for whom the (mis)fortune of war has denied them a named grave. Seeing the many pictures of the shell damage and areas razed to the ground, you can understand how there are some many unidentifed graves and why so many names are listed as missing.
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