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- Yayın zamanı: 6 saat önce6 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".
- Nearly 100,000 soldiers from the British Empire went missing in action with no known grave. Their names are recorded on the Menin Gate and at the Tyne Cot...
- Our information centre in close to the Menin Gate has all the practical information you need when visiting the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial and surrounding area.
- Two or three minutes walk from the central Market Place in Ypres, stands the magnificent Menin Gate, Memorial to the Missing.
- The Menin Gate at Ypres, Belgium, bears the names of 54,896 of those who died between 1914 and 15 August 1917 and have no known grave.
- “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”.
- 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 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.
