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- The Menin Gate (Dutch: Menenpoort), officially the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing, is a war memorial in Ypres, Belgium...
- Website: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Menin Gate Memorial Restoration Work https://www.cwgc.org/our-work/menin-gate-memorial/.
- 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.
- No fee for the Menin Gate. ... From the station you can walk (+- 15 minutes - 1,2 km) through the town to the Menin Gate Memorial.
- 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.
- This was because Katrien and Steven who run B&B La Porte Cochère in Ypres recently sent me some fascinating photos of the construction of the Menin Gate.
- The Menin Gate was originally one of the gates of the town of Ypres, fortified by Vauban in the 17th century, along the road going to the village of Menen.
- The triumphal arch that now stands at Menin Gate was designed by British architect Reginald Blomfield in 1921. The barrel-vaulted main passage for traffic...
- “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”.
