What happens every evening at the Menin Gate in Ypres?
Every evening at exactly 8 o’clock, the police halts the traffic passing under the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in the Belgian city of Ieper to allow the buglers to play their simple but moving tribute.
What piece of music is played every night at the Menin Gate?
The Last Post
The Last Post is performed every evening at 8pm in the town of Ypres, Belgium, by the buglers of the local Last Post Association. The group of buglers play The Last Post at the Menin Gate, in a tradition which started almost 100 years ago in 1928, to remember the soldiers who fell in the First World War.
How long has the last post been played at the Menin Gate?
1. The Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate Memorial first took place on 1st July 1928. It has taken place every night since, with the exception of a 4 year period from May 1940 – September 1944, when it was held instead at Brockwood Cemetery in England.
What time is the ceremony at the Menin Gate?
8.00pm
Every night at 8.00pm (20:00 hours) a moving ceremony takes place under the Menin Gate in Ieper – Ypres.
What is the significance of the Menin Gate?
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. It commemorates casualties from the forces of Australia, Canada, India, South Africa and United Kingdom who died in the Salient.
What happened at Menin Gate?
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.
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Menin Gate.
| Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing | |
|---|---|
| Designed by | Reginald Blomfield |
| Commemorated | 54,896 |
| Burials by nation |
Was the Menin Gate damaged in ww2?
The Menin Gate was damaged during the fighting in 1940 – the principal damage being caused by the retreating British Army which blew up the bridge across the moat. The memorial was restored in 1945-48 by Blomfield’s son Austin Blomfield.
What city was the Menin Gate in?
town of Ypres
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War.
Why is the Menin Gate so called?
The Menin Gate was so named because here the road out of Ypres passed through the old wall defences going in the direction of Menin. During the war the two stone lions standing on each side of the Menin Gate were seen by tens of thousands of troops as they went towards the front line.