Detail at sunset of the north facing panel inside the Menin Gate, Ieper (Ypres), Belgium.
Detail at sunset of the north facing panel inside the Menin Gate, Ieper (Ypres), Belgium. The Menin Gate is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient. The battles of the Ypres Salient claimed many lives on both sides and it quickly became clear that the commemoration of members of the Commonwealth forces with no known grave would have to be divided between several different sites. 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. It commemorates those of all Commonwealth nations (except New Zealand) who died in the Salient, in the case of United Kingdom casualties before 16 August 1917. Those United Kingdom and New Zealand servicemen who died after that date are named on the memorial at Tyne Cot. TheYpres (Menin Gate) Memorial now bears the names of more than 54,000 officers and men whose graves are not known. The memorial, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield with sculpture by Sir William Reid-Dick, was unveiled by Lord Plumer in July 1927. (Source: ) Over each of the two central arches there is a large panel for the dedicatory inscription: TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE (Source: )
Size: 3418px × 5129px
Location: Meenenpoorte (Menin Gate), Ieper (Ypres), Belgium.
Photo credit: © Maurice Savage / Alamy / Afripics
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