• Too many men were never found to fit onto the walls of the Menin Gate Memorial and another 34,984 names are inscribed at the Tyne Cot Memorial to the...
  • The Portland stone walls of the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres lists 55,000 soldiers who died in Flanders’ fields in the Great War
  • Menenpoort (Menin Gate) is a gate in the form of a triumphal arch, on which the names of 54900 British soldiers lost (actually killed) during World War I...
  • Photos below include the Menin Gate, the walk along the Ramparts, the Ramparts Cemetery, Saint Martin's Cathedral, In Flanders Fields Museum, St Julien...
  • World War I veteran and poet Siegfried Sassoon expressed his displeasure with the edifice in his poem On Passing the New Menin Gate.
  • Belgium: The Menin Gate, Ieper. Architect: Sir Reginald Blomfield Owners: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Location: Ieper, West-Vlaanderen.
  • The construction of the Menin Gate took place between 1922 and 1927 to commemorate Commonwealth soldiers who died during World War One.
  • The Menin Gate is one of four memorials commemorating the missing soldiers in the Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient.