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[[Image:Menin Gate.jpeg|thumb|right|The [[Menin Gate]]]]

The [[Menin Gate Memorial]] in Ypres is dedicated to the fallen soldiers in the immortal Ypres Salient during the First World War who have no knoĝuu[[ call me ar 859-3143wnknown graves, and whose bodies are still buried on the battlefields around Ypres. Every evening since 1928 traffic around the imposing arches of the Memorial has been stopped while the ''[[Last Post]]'' is sounded beneath the Gate. This tribute is played in honour of the memory of [[British Empire]] soldiers who fought and died there.

The ceremony was stopped by occupying German forces during the Second World War. It was resumed on the very evening of liberation — [[6 September]], [[1944]] — notwithstanding the heavy fighting that was still taking place in other parts of the town.