- 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.
- The Menin Gate has special significance to Australians. The Last Post is played every day at sundown to remember the ANZACs who fought to defend Ypres in the...
- 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.
- This was because Katrien and Steven who run B&B La Porte Cochère in Ypres recently sent me some fascinating photos of the construction of the Menin Gate.
- On Monday 28th April the Families and Friends of the First AIF will be laying a wreath during the Last Post Ceremony at Menin Gate Ieper http...
- YPRES, BELGIUM – As the sun sets over the Belgian countryside, crowds of people surround Menin Gate in Ypres (now Ieper) to commemorate...
- 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.
- “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”.
- In 1927, the Menin Gate was opened at the eastern exit of the town. ... Thousands of soldiers entered the town through the Menin Gate.
- Located in the heart of Ypres, Flanders, built by Sir Reginald Blomfield, lies the most famous Commonwealth war memorial - Menin Gate.