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Singing under the Menin Gate memorial in Belgium was a "great honour" for a Manx choir from Peel, the musical director has said. Thirteen children and six adult choristers from Cathedral Isle of ...
There were maybe 200 people who would gather each night beneath the Menin Gate, the Reginald Blomfield-designed monument reminiscent of the Arc de Triomphe, that was dedicated in July 1927 to ...
But it's never made me cry. Far fewer people have heard of the Menin Gate. It, too, is a memorial arch, the entrance to the Belgian city of Ieper. This smallish city was the center of the Western ...
Mark Whitaker reports from the Menin Gate in the Belgian city of Ypres, a symbol of remembrance that, some 90 years after WWI, still has the power to affect visitors deeply. Show more Mark ...
The 2024 edition of Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields will once again start from the Menin Gate in Ypres, a memorial to the victims of World War I, and end on Vanackerestraat in Wevelgem.
It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. The most sceptical visitor cannot fail to be moved by the Menin Gate and all those names of the men it honours, believes Mike Peters ...
In the Belgian town of Ypres, which was left in ruins by the conflict, the Armistice Day service took place at the Menin Gate memorial. Robert Hall reports. Veterans attend Menin Gate ceremony.
The Menin Gate buglers emerge every night in Ypres in remembrance of the soldiers of the Commonwealth who lost their lives in the battles of Flanders during the Great War. In the lead-up to Anzac ...
The heads of state will attend the ceremony of the Last Post at the Menin Gate. Lucy Hockings explains its significance.