The Last Post at the Menin Gate Memorial (360)

The Last Post Ceremony takes place every evening under the Menin Gate Memorial.

Built as a memorial to the missing, Menin Gate is dedicated to the British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient and whose graves are unknown, many of whom died at the Battle of Passchendaele.


THE BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE

Fought between July and November 1917, Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, remains one of the most notorious battles of the First World War.

In three-and-a-half months of fighting, an advance of less than five miles saw an estimated 550,000 Allied and German troops killed, wounded or lost.

Around 90,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers were missing; 50,000 buried without being identified, and 42,000 never recovered from the Belgian fields of Flanders that turned into an ocean of mud.


PASSCHENDAELE 100

The 100th anniversary of Passchendaele provides an opportunity to view WW1 in a new way and commemorate the Service and sacrifice of those who lost their lives.

Find out more at: http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/passc...



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