“Ich Hatt’ Einen Kameraden“ in Langemarck German Miltary Cemetery in Flanders Fields

World’s primeur: on 22nd May 2009, at 18:50, the all-Flemish Ypres Surrey Pipes & Drums Band performed with great feeling “Ich hatt’ einen Kameraden,“ an old German military song, for the assembled German and British reservists, cadets and multinational visitors. The location was Langemarck German Military Cemetery in Belgian Flanders Fields, the occasion the 100 km March around Ypres week end. Peace reigned over the assembled audience remembering and paying their solemn respects to more than 44 000 German and 2 British WW I soldiers resting at this cemetery. Later that day, the Germans, the Brits and the locals merrily fraternized till the wee hours of the morning in the famous Fabienne’s Klein Rijsel Café in Ypres! Well done and a big thank you, YSP&D Pierre Dervaux and Eric Rémy!