Menin Gate and Last Post

The Menin Gate is a majestic monument to the fallen of the First World War in the Belgian town of Ieper (Ypres). While the conflict was the salient of Ypres, the scene of terrible fighting and received the nickname "Cream" by British Tommies who fought there. More than a quarter of a million people from Britain and the Commonwealth died in the fighting around this historic city. Of those men who have experienced serious about 100,000 and about half of them are commemorated on the Menin Gate. This memorialLack bears the names of 54,000 people from around the world.

Throughout the Western Front are battlefields of Belgium and France there are many monuments, but the Menin Gate is significant for more than just its size. The gate is located at the eastern end of the village and the road leads directly to the old front line. The monument was built by the British government and was opened in 1927th His position seems reasonable, and many of the men whose names on Menin rememberedGate will march along this road a lot in the foreground, never to return.

The citizens of Ypres were all aware of the debt of gratitude that the dead who had the idea, they had to honor. Since 1928, every night at 08:00, from traffic that is terminated by the Menin Gate and a short ceremony will take place. Last Post Horns gather association and local fire department to play the Last Post. " The ceremony should not be viewed as entertainment, is asignificant opportunity, and although the public freely participate in the ceremony, they should remember why it is conducted.

The ceremony took place every night from 2 July 1928, interrupted only during World War II, when the city was occupied by Germany. During the occupation of Ypres, the ceremony took place Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey, UK. On the same day that Ypres was published by the Germans during the Second World War, was again held at the Menin Gate.