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 ...

Every evening in Ypres, a crowd stands silently under the imposing Menin Gate, a grand archway covering the route Allied soldiers took to the front lines during the First World War, as buglers ...

The lonely, eerie sound of a bugle is one that locals in Ypres, Belgium, are well used to. But for the thousands of Britons gathered around the imposing white stone memorial of Menin Gate ...

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 ...

or Menin Gate, on the road leading to the nearby town of Menin. During the war the Menin road was one of the main arteries of the Ypres Salient. British and Commonwealth soldiers often passed ...

The Menin Gate commemorates those who died in the horrific ... They fought in the hell of the Ypres Salient, the name given the curving, defensive lines of the Western Front.

Descendants of Northland's first European settler family were among those laying wreaths at the Menin Gate at Ypres to commemorate 100 years since the Battle of Passchendaele. Ruakaka resident ...

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. The Ypres Menin Gate memorial now bears the names of more ...

He joined the King of Belgium in laying wreaths at the Menin Gate to mark the centenary of the Third Battle of Ypres, later to be known as Passchendaele, in which some 320,000 Allies perished in ...