Menin gate - Ypres, Belgium, Europe
The Menin Gate was completed in 1927 to the designs of Sir Reginald Blomfield. On the walls, both inside and outside, are the names of the thousands of soldiers who died in the Ypres area, but who do not have a recorded grave elsewhere. Every evening at 8pm the road is closed and buglers from the Ypres Fire Service play the Last Post in memory of fallen soldiers. The gate is so named because it straddles the road to Menin and possibly refers to an old battlefield joke. 'Tell the last man in the line to close the Menin Gate.' There was no gate of course!
Size: 3639px × 5250px
Location: Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Photo credit: © Washington Imaging / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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