- 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.
- On Thursday evening 28th August 2014 Stephen and I visited the Menin Gate Memorial, which is located on the eastern side of Ypres (now Ieper)...
- In itself, of course, Menin Gate is not historic in the sense that the scenes of actual fighting a few miles away are historic, save for the fact that it was the focal point in...
- The Menin Gate is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient.
- Menin Gate lies at the entrance to the city of Ypres, and is on the road where many of the young soldiers passed through to get to the front lines of the battlefield.
- The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing is one of four memorials to Commonwealth soldiers killed on the battlefield in the Ypres Salient and who have no...
- Apart from a pause through WW2, the sounding of the Last Post has been held at the Gate every night since 1928, as a perpetual act of thanks by the people of Ypres.
- Located in the heart of Ypres, Flanders, built by Sir Reginald Blomfield, lies the most famous Commonwealth war memorial - Menin Gate.
- British and Commonwealth soldiers often passed through the Menin Gate on their way to the front lines with some 300,000 of them being killed in the Ypres Salient.