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		Memorial - Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial - Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
		Memorial - Ypress (Menin Gate) Memorial - Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
		Memorial - Ypres (Menin gate) Memorial- Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
	www.freewebs.com /wolverhampton-roll-of-honour/abcd.htm (11944 words)

	Menin Gate Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Menin Gate Memorial at the eastern exit of the town of Ieper (usually known in English as "Ypres") in Flanders, Belgium, marks the starting point for one of the main roads out of the town that led Allied soldiers to the front line during World War I.
		The "Gate" was merely the gap in the city's star-shaped fortifications designed by Louis XIV's engineer Vauban, which were pointless in the age of shelling: Ypres was reduced to rubble.
		Menin Gate Memorial does not list the names of the missing of New Zealand and Newfoundland soldiers who are honoured on separate memorials.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/m/me/menin_gate_memorial.html (453 words)

	Will Longstaff's Menin Gate at midnight (Ghosts of Menin Gate) [Australian War Memorial]
		Vox Mortuum 4 (The unknown soldier) is particularly reminiscent of Menin Gate: it shows the ghostly figure of a soldier on a cross floating before an arc de triomphe, in front of which marches a host of soldiers on military parade.
		After Menin Gate was displayed in London, by royal command viewed by King George V and his family at Buckingham Palace, and shown in Manchester and Glasgow, it was sent to Australia.
		Menin Gate at midnight has undeniable power: it brings to life the many nameless heroes, the men on whom the ANZAC legend was based, and who exist as part of our national memory.
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/menin/notes.htm (2385 words)

	Menin Gate at Midnight - Will Longstaff [Australian War Memorial]
		Will Longstaff painted "Menin Gate at Midnight" after he had attended the unveiling ceremony of the Menin Gate memorial at the entrance of the Belgian town of Ypres on 24 July 1927.
		It is constructed on a simple, traditional, land-sky format: the pale memorial is placed boldly on the horizon, and before it marches a host of ghostly soldiers.
		The 400 allotted to Australia were sold by October 1929, at which time the Memorial produced a cheaper version which was distributed widely, door to door, through a marketing company.
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/menin/index.htm (299 words)

	Menin Gate Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Menin Gate Memorial at the eastern exit of the town of Ieper in Flanders, Belgium, marks the startingpoint for one of the main roads out of the town that led Allied soldiers to the frontline during World War I.
		Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and built by the British government, the Menin Gate Memorial opened on July 24, 1927 as a monument dedicated to the missing British and Commonwealthsoldiers who were killed in the fierce battles around the Ypres Salient area who have no known grave.
		Menin Gate Memorial does not listthe names of the missing of New Zealand and Newfoundland soldiers who are honoured on separate memorials.
	www.therfcc.org /menin-gate-memorial-99549.html (340 words)

	Hellfire Corner - Tom Morgan's Ypres Battlefield Guide - The Menin Gate
		It was found that the Menin Gate, immense though it is, was not large enough to hold the names of all the missing.
		The names recorded on the gate's panels are those of men who died in the area between the outbreak of the war in 1914 and 15th August, 1917.
		The Menin Road is still an important thoroughfare and traffic and pedestrians pass under the gate as part of the daily life of Ypres.
	www.fylde.demon.co.uk /menin.htm (1178 words)

	Menin Gate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Menin Gate Memorial at the eastern exit of the town of Ypres (known as "Ieper" in Dutch) in Flanders, Belgium, marks the starting point for one of the main roads out of the town that led Allied soldiers to the front line during World War I.
		"Menin" is the French and hence English name for Menen, a small Flemish town to the east of Ypres.
		Except for the occupation by the Germans in World War II when the daily ceremony was conducted at Brookwood Military Cemetery, in Surrey, England, this ceremony has been carried on uninterrupted since Armistice Day, November 11, 1918.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Menin_Gate_Memorial (500 words)

	First World War.com - Feature Articles - The Inauguration of the Menin Gate, 1927
		The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing was inaugurated on Sunday 24 July, 1927 by Field Marshal Lord Plumer.
		Crowds were standing on the ramparts either side of the memorial and along the road opposite the memorial on the eastern side of the moat.
		Harington considered that Plumer's speech at the Menin Gate was perhaps his greatest effort and that it must have been a supreme moment in his life.
	www.firstworldwar.com /features/meningate.htm (781 words)

	Menin Gate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		8.5.1915 and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
		Ceska Streets, Behounska Gate (also known as the Rhine Gate) at the end of Behounska Street, Menin Gate, which is the only extant gate, is at the end of Orli Street and the Jewish Gate at the end of...
		The moving Menin Gate is also in the town centre and bears the names of some 55,000 soldiers who have no grave, each evening at 8pm traffic comes to a standstill as Buglers sound the Last Post...
	inflandersfields.sallfields.com /meningate (1156 words)

	Menin Gate at Midnight - Will Longstaff [Australian War Memorial]
		Menin Gate at Midnight - Will Longstaff [Australian War Memorial]
		Will Longstaff's "Menin Gate at Midnight" – (Ghosts of Menin Gate), painted in 1927, is undoubtedly one of the best known paintings in the Australian War Memorial's art collection.
		One thousand reproductions of the painting were made in 1928 under Longstaff's direction, and signed by the artist.
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/menin (299 words)

	The Menin Gate Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The "Menin Gate" was one of those which faced the front line to the east, and one through which hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to their destiny.
		The Menin Gate records the names of 56,000 men from Great Britain and its Empire who were killed in the Ypres Salient between October 1914 and the night of 15th/16th August 1917 and who have no known grave.
		It is ironic, to say the least, that the memorial which prompted Siegfried Sassoon to write the words quoted on my homepage should also have prompted what is probably the most moving and enduring act of remembrance in the World.
	www.scmetcalfe.btinternet.co.uk /pages/menin.htm (302 words)

	Menin Gate Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Menin Gate Memorial doesn't list the names of the missing of New Zealand and Newfoundland soldiers who are honoured on separate memorials.
		Except for the occupation by the Germans in World War II when the daily ceremony was conducted at Brookwood Military Cemetery, in Surrey, England, this ceremony has been carried on uninterrupted since Armistice Day, November 11, 1929.
		I doubted whether lightning were abroad; That doth unfold it, and this during still What it might be: and a sweet melody.html">melody With warrantable zeal the hardihood Stood in obedience to the heav'ns, she only, Restraint of any veil: which had she borne Had from the first, and long time since, been mine.
	www.explainthis.info /me/menin-gate-memorial.html (422 words)

	Menin Gate, a living memorial
		In 1928, a year after the inauguration of the Menin Gate Memorial, a number of prominent citizens in Ypres decided that some way should be found to express the gratitude of the Belgian nation towards those who had died for its freedom and independence.
		The Menin Gate Memorial on the east side of Ypres was thought to be the most appropriate location for the ceremony.
		Originally this was the location of the old city gate leading to the Ypres Salient battlefields through which so many passed on their way to the front line.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-memorials/menin_gate.htm (631 words)

	Menin Gate Memorial, Ieper Belgium
		The Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town on the road to Menen and Kortrijk.
		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.
		The Menin Gate Memorial now bears the names of more than 54,000 officers and men whose graves are not known.
	www.webmatters.net /cwgc/menin_gate.htm (596 words)

	Roll of Honour - Overseas - Menin Gate, Belgium
		The Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town on the road to Menin (Menen) and Courtrai (Kortrijk).
		Each night at 8 pm the traffic is stopped at the Menin Gate while members of the local Fire Brigade sound the Last Post in the roadway under the Memorial's arches.
		The Menin Gate is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient.
	www.roll-of-honour.com /Overseas/meningate.html (557 words)

	Menin Gate Memorial and St. George's Church - Veterans Affairs Canada
		When the Germans launched the great spring offensives of 1918, their forces were finally halted less than two and a half kilometres from the Menin Gate at Ypres.
		The Memorial, which was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield, and erected by the Imperial (now the Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, consists of a "Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide.
		On the inner walls of the Hall, on the sides of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps.
	www.vac-acc.gc.ca /general/sub.cfm?source=memorials/ww1mem/menin (681 words)

	War memorial -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A war memorial is a building, monument, statue or other edifice to commemorate those who have died, or been injured, in (The waging of armed conflict against an enemy) war.
		A war memorial can be an entire building, often containing a (A depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value) museum, or just a simple plaque.
		Many war memorials have (An inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there) epitaphs relating to the unit, battle or war they commemorate.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wa/war_memorial.htm (720 words)

	gallery image file - World War 1 Memorials and Monuments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Menin Gate as in WW1, troups leaving town, the Cloth Hall ruins in the background.
		At the outbreak of the First World War it was known as the Menenpoort (Gate to Menin) and was simply a cutting through the remains of the ancient ramparts.
		The memorial contains the names of 54,896 officers and men from all the overseas British and Commonwealth forces who fell in the Ypres Salient before 16 August 1917 (from then on the names were recorded at the Tyne Cot Memorial).
	www.ping.be /~pylyserk/gallery/memorial/menin%20gate.html (1201 words)

	Menin Gate Memorial
		From October 1914 British and Commonwealth troops began to march through the Meenenpoorte gateway from the city of Ypres onto The Menin Road and into the battlefields of the Ypres Salient.
		The memorial is built of reinforced concrete faced with Euville stone and red brick.
		This memorial does not include the names of the missing of New Zealand and Newfoundland forces, who are named on separate memorials.
	www.greatwar.co.uk /westfront/ypsalient/meningate/meningate.htm (584 words)

	Sad Event at the Menin Gate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On 15th September 2002 the Menin Gate Memorial at Ypres, which commemorates 55,000 soldiers from Britain and the Commonwealth who fell at Ypres and have no known grave, was host to a special event.
		On this occasion the Menin Gate was used as a commercial launch for a book by the Belgian poet Lanoye, who has just published a volume in Flemish about WW1 poetry.
		A huge screen is placed on the city side of the memorial to rely the events to those outside.
	battlefields1418.50megs.com /sad_event_at_the_menin_gate.htm (320 words)

	John Ingram, The Menin Gate, Ypres
		The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing at Ypres bears the names of 56,000 soldiers of the British Empire who fell in the Ypres Salient between November 1914 and 15th/16th August 1917 and have no known grave.
		Although the area was known as the Menin Gate, there has not been a gate there since medieval times but the gap in the ramparts was known as the Menin Gate.
		The daily sounding of the Last Post as a suitable memorial to those commemorated on the Menin Gate began on 1st July 1928, a year after the inauguration of the Menin Gate Memorial, and was the idea of Monsieur Vandenbraambusche, a superintendent in the Belgian police.
	www.kinnethmont.co.uk /1914-1918_files/john-ingram-ypres.htm (742 words)

	The Menin gate at Ypres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The top photograph shows the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing the camera pointing in the direction of the Menin Road.
		The Memorial contains the names of over 54,000 men who were killed in action in the area between 1914 and 1917 including many from Blunden’s regiment.
		The second photograph shows six members of the Fire Brigade standing to attention whilst the Queen Mother’s Pipe Major, who is wearing the uniform of the London Scottish, plays "The Lament".
	www.1914-18.co.uk /blunden/meningate.htm (93 words)

	Menin Gate
		The Menin Gate Memorial can be found in Ieper (Ypres) Belgium.
		It is a large and impressive memorial which lists the names of almost 56 000 men killed in the Ypres Salient whom have no known grave.
		One of the great traditions connected with the commemoration of those who were killed in WW1 occurs at the Menin Gate.
	www.macknortshs.qld.edu.au /ANZAC/menin_gate.htm (158 words)

	Menin Gate - Last Post Ceremony
		Originally this was the location of the old city gate leading to the Ypres Salient battlefields and The Menin Road, through which so many British and Commonwealth troops had passed on their way to the Allied front line.
		On the very evening that Polish forces liberated Ypres the ceremony was resumed at the Menin Gate, in spite of the heavy fighting still going on in other parts of the town.
		At other times, on a weekday or in winter, the pavements under the memorial are empty.
	www.greatwar.co.uk /westfront/ypsalient/meningate/lastpost.htm (633 words)

	Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials
		The Menin Gate Memorial bears the names of 54,900 British and Empire soldiers who died between 4th August 1914 and 15th August 1917.
		An inscription on the arch reads 'Here are recorded names of officers and men who fell in Ypres salient, but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honourable burial given to their comrades in death'.
		The British Government gave £150,000 to build the gate, which was constructed between 1923 and 1927.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6188 (140 words)

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		Johan Gunn, of Viewfield, Saskatchewan." 248 "YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Belgium.
		Christina Macleod, of 13, New Garrobosh, Stornoway, Scotland." 129 "YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Belgium.
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