- 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.
- 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.
- YPRES, BELGIUM – As the sun sets over the Belgian countryside, crowds of people surround Menin Gate in Ypres (now Ieper) to commemorate...
- In 1927, the Menin Gate was opened at the eastern exit of the town. ... Thousands of soldiers entered the town through the Menin Gate.
- 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...
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- Standing under the great arch that is the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium, I am surrounded by hundreds of people and yet it is silent.
- “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”.
- 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.
- 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.