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Menin Gate and the Last Post

April 26, 2011 Rob Atherton Humanities

The Menin Gate in an impressive memorial to the soldiers who died during World War I in the Belgium town of Ypres (Iepers). All through the conflict, the Ypres Salient was the arena of awful fighting and was nicknamed “Wipers” by the British infantry who fought there.

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