• The Menin Gate (Dutch: Menenpoort), officially the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing, is a war memorial in Ypres, Belgium...
  • This cutting was known as the “Menenpoort” in Flemish or the “Porte de Menin” in French, which translates as the “Menen or Menin 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.
  • Each night at 8 pm the traffic is stopped at the Menin Gate while members of the local Fire Brigade sound the Last Post in the roadway under the Memorial's arches.
  • The Menin Gate Memorial was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and constructed by the British government. It was officially unveiled to the public on July 24, 1927.
  • Belçika'nın Flaman Bölgesindeki Batı Flandre iline bağlı Ypres beldesinde bulunan Menin Gate Anıtı 24 Temmuz 1927 tarihinde ziyarette açılan bir savaş anıtıdır.
  • Menin Gate is one of the most important First World War sites in Ypres and has a daily memorial ceremony at 8pm known as the Last Post Ceremony.
  • The Menin Gate, also known as the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing, is a war memorial that is dedicated to the British and Commonwealth soldiers who...
  • Explore the town of Ypres and learn about its wartime history. Attend the poignant Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate in Ypres, a tribute to fallen soldiers.
  • “Who will remember, passing through this gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?” Sassoon referred to the Menin Gate as “a sepulchre of crime”.