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- Yayın zamanı: 10 saat önce10 saat önceThe Menin Gate in Ypres is the best known of the memorials to the missing in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's care.
- Sassoon described the Menin Gate in his poem 'On Passing the New Menin Gate', saying that the dead of the Ypres Salient would "deride this sepulchre of crime".
- The site of the Menin Gate was chosen because of the hundreds of thousands of men who passed through it on their way to the battlefields.
- Two or three minutes walk from the central Market Place in Ypres, stands the magnificent Menin Gate, Memorial to the Missing.
- To make sure thousands of Allied soldiers were remembered, renowned British architect Sir Reginald Blomfield designed the Menin Gate.
- The Menin Gate can be found at Menenstraat, 8900 Ieper. If using satellite navigation, the co-ordinates 50°51’07.2″N 2°53’27.5″E will take you to the gate.
- The site of the Menin Gate was chosen because of the hundreds of thousands of men who passed through it on their way to the battlefields.
- The triumphal arch that now stands at Menin Gate was designed by British architect Reginald Blomfield in 1921.
- Belgium - Menin Gate Memorial - Ieper. ... Menin Gate Panels 30 & 32 list all Canadian Mounted Rifles regiments (1st, 2nd, 4th & 5th) together.
