Menin Gate Memorial (Ypres Memorial)

The Menin Gate is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient. Broadly speaking, the Salient stretched from Langemarck in the north to the northern edge in Ploegsteert Wood in the south, but it varied in area and shape throughout the war.

The Menin Gate commemorates by name over 54,000 officers and enlisted men of the British Empire who died in the Ypres Salient with no known war grave. These names, carved into monumental stone panels, represent men from five Commonwealth nations: Great Britain, Canada, Australia, Undivided India, and South Africa.

Today, Ieper is the official name, but during World War One, British soldiers would use Ypres, although anglicised to “Wipers” - as notably demonstrated by the soldiers' publication 'The Wipers Times'.