Menin Gate
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war memorial in Ypres, Belgium
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Menen
- Country
- Belgium
- Located in
- Ypres
- Area
- 1618
- Material used
- natural stone
- Creator
- William Reid Dick
- Image
- Menenpoort ieper.jpg
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- Commons category
- Menin Gate
- inception
- 1927-00-00
- architect
- Reginald Blomfield
- native label
- Menin Gate
- heritage designation
- World Heritage Site
- date of official opening
- 1927-07-24
- unveiled by
- Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer
- commemorates
- World War I
- quantity buried
- 54379
- inscription
- To the Armies of the British Empire who stood here from 1914 to 1918 and to those of their dead who have no known grave
- time period
- interwar period
- P12749
- Radical 92
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