- To make sure thousands of Allied soldiers were remembered, renowned British architect Sir Reginald Blomfield designed the Menin Gate.
- 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.
- 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.
- Those are other destinations to find places related to Menin Gate: Villa Cavrois. Palais des Beaux-Ar… Menin Gate. Gare de Lille Europe. IJzertoren.
- “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”.
- 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.
- 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 Anıtı'nın 1927'deki açılışının ardından Ypres vatandaşları istedi Belçika'nın özgürlüğü için canlarını verenlere şükranlarını ifade etmek.
- The Menin Gate was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission to fulfil this criteria, and was completed in July 1927.
- At 8pm we will attend the Last Post Ceremony at Menin Gate (under restoration works until mid-2025), a daily tribute to all Commonwealth soldiers and officers...