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The Menin Gate

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AuthorLindsay, Kate
TitleThe Menin Gate
NotesThe Menin Gate Memorial to the missing stands at the eastern exit of Ypres in Flanders, Belgium, The gate marks the starting point for one of the main roads out of the town that led Allied soldiers to the front line during the First World War. The memorial is inscribed with 54,900 of the 'missing' British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the fierce battles around the Ypres Salient area who have no known grave. At 8pm each evening, the local police stop traffic from passing underneath the gate, and the Last Post is played by buglers from the Ypres fire station, often attended by large crowds.
Item Date10th July 2008
Creation placeYpres, Belgium (Google Maps)
Item mediumDigital image
ContentPhotograph
KeywordsCommemoration, Casualties of War, Ypres
Repository nameThe First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Repository address
13 Banbury Road
Oxford
OX2 6NN
UK
Repository URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
CataloguerKate Lindsay
FilenameCXTPROPHOTOS - 99.jpg
CopyrightThe First World War poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford
Digital repositoryThe First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Reference URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/5482