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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
1927: The Menin Gate, a memorial at Ypres to the armies of the British Empire, was unveiled by Lord Plumer. 1935: Greetings telegrams were introduced by the GPO. In a gold envelope, they cost an ...
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 ...
'I come here as a proud Irish republican to recognise the deaths of thousands of Irish men during the course of the catastrophic imperialist First World War' Wed 1 Jun 2016 at 15:06 Sinn Fein ...