• His grave must have been ‘lost’ as Richard is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
  • Menin Gate memorial front entrance at Ypres, Belgium. ... The Last Post ceremony to remember the Allied soldiers of WW2 at the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium.
  • 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...
  • 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.
  • Belgium: The Menin Gate, Ieper. Architect: Sir Reginald Blomfield Owners: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Location: Ieper, West-Vlaanderen.
  • The Menin Gate Memorial was built following the war, to commemmorate the Allied soldiers who died in battle and whose graves were unknown.