Menin Gate
From Calais to Ypres.
A day time visit to Menin Gate, an emotional visit when looking at all the names recorded around the walls. This visit was in the early afternoon, we need to return sometime to hear the Last Post
From wiki
The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing is a war memorial in Ypres, Belgium dedicated to the British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient of World War I and whose graves are unknown. Wikipedia
Ypres (now Ieper) is a town in the Province of West Flanders. 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.
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