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Menin Gate Memorial
The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing, located in Ieper, Belgium, is one of four memorials to the missing that commemorate British and Commonwealth soldiers who died in the Ypres Salient during the First World War and have no known grave. Located at the town’s eastern exit, on the road that leads towards Menen and Kortrijk, it stands on one of the main routes once used by Allied soldiers travelling to the front lines.

Matthew Camilleri
Oct 175 min read


Ploegsteert Memorial
The Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial in Belgium which commemorates more than 11,000 British and Empire troops who fell on the northern Western Front outside the Ypres Salient and have no known grave.

Matthew Camilleri
Sep 183 min read
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