Maltese Servicemen honoured in Flanders
01 January 2012
On the 2nd December 2011, the Embassy of Malta in Belgium held a
Commemorative Service in honour and remembrance of the Maltese
Servicemen who fell on the western front in the two world wars.
The ceremony was held at Ploegsteert Memorial, where the first of
the Maltese died. He was Second Lieutenant Frederick Paul Bernard,
who was killed in action on the 21 December 1914. He was 20 years
old.
The names of these Maltese buried in unknown graves are etched on
memorials such as the Menin Gate in Ieper and on the
Ploegsteert Memorial.
View
a video of the service created by the Embassy of Malta in
Belgium.