The sheer scale of the building is made more impressive by its location in the town. The sheer number of names of soldiers without graves on all the tablets is numbing. The best plan is to tie in a visit with the 8pm last post...More

Visited the memorial and attended the Last Post Ceremony. Very thought provoking, sobering and emotional. Something everyone should do before you can fully appreciate the sacrifices made.

Marking the memorial to nearly 55,000 British & Commonwealth soldiers who fell in the Ypres Salient up to August 1917 and have no known grave, the Menin Gate is one of the most powerful and moving monuments one will ever visit. And to hear the...More

Amazing memorial the Belgium and people of Ypres deserve credit for building and honoring the sacrifice of the common wealth soldiers.

There are 54,000 names on the Menin Gate, not the list of those who died in the Ypres Salient, but those who died with no known grave. I find these scale of numbers difficult to fathom. The monument is a beautiful tribute - regardless of...More

Looking at the thousands of British and Commonwealth names of soldiers who still lay unfound somewhere in the nearby area is really moving. I thought the names within the arch was it, but they go up and around the outside on a few levels. Seeing...More

The Menin Gate Memorial is built on the site of the old Menin Gate (Meensepoort) through which hundreds of thousands of troops of the British Empire marched to war. Originally the gate was a simple gap in the town ramparts. The present gate was completed...More