Menin Gate
War memorial in Ypres, BelgiumWikipedia
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Oct 2, 2026
GerardPANELIST
And there was 80 of them, 80 men went to war from Carbery and surrounding areas, and 30 of them never returned.
GerardPANELIST
And we went to look for their names on the Menin Gate because two of them were killed at the Battle of Ypres.
GerardPANELIST
We didn't find their names now, lads, but we-
TonyHOST
No, we didn't
GerardPANELIST
We f- by the way, Ypres is, or Ypres, or whatever way you want to call it, is a beautiful city.
GerardPANELIST
Absolutely beautiful.
GerardPANELIST
Uh, we got a lovely hotel there as well, a Novotel Hotel, uh, in the mid s- ment, the center, uh, right beside the Menin Gate.
GerardPANELIST
Uh, we were able to pa- park the bikes outside, which was a very good thing.
SimonGUEST
Mm
Terry WenhamHOST
... of the Menin Gate.
SimonGUEST
Yes, exactly.
Terry WenhamHOST
That's a week later, isn't it?
Terry WenhamHOST
[laughs]
SimonGUEST
...
SimonGUEST
if we don't do it at Dozinghem, we'll do it at the Menin Gate.
Terry WenhamHOST
Mm.
Kirsten NoteGUEST
Yeah, glad to.
Kirsten NoteGUEST
And then I ended up staying in Ypres for a little while and ended up being involved in the parade that the new Ypres League was doing to like the Menin Gate or whatever.
Kirsten NoteGUEST
And I was like in one of those situations where you think now, how did I end up here? And then I ended up just joining because I thought, you know what, this is actually probably just a really lovely group.
Kirsten NoteGUEST
And it really is, guys.
speaker_5NARRATOR
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speaker_5NARRATOR
The Lieutenant and Others by Sapper Preface it is perhaps unnecessary to state that none of the sketches in this book refer to any particular individual they are not arranged in chronological order they do not pretend to be anything more than mere impressions of the grim drama now being played across the water some of those pictured in these pages have gone across the veil of shadows may the earth lie lightly on them one and all others there are who perchance may think they recognize themselves here and there to them i dedicate the book the setting in most of the sketches is the salient of ypres there may be some who recognize not i trust without a throb of pleasure Fresenberg, the Menin Gate, and other health resorts of that delectable neighborhood.
speaker_5NARRATOR
But should I lift in the smallest degree, for those who wait behind, the curtain that shrouds somewhere in France, and show them the tears and the laughter, the humor and the pathos that go to form the atmosphere over yonder, i shall be well satisfied i am no artist in words but each in his separate star shall paint the thing as he sees it for the god of things as they are
Greg GiordanoNARRATOR
CHAPTER I AND II.
Paul ReedHOST
And although it was a significant moment, a significant memorial service...
Paul ReedHOST
It wasn't quite on the scale of the unveiling of the Menin Gate in 1927 or the British Legion's Great Pilgrimage in 1928.
Paul ReedHOST
But Tjapval now existed, this huge memorial, the biggest of them all, standing on that high ground, no longer dominating a battlefield, but dominating the landscape of memory that now existed on those Somme battlefields.
Paul ReedHOST
It was a classical piece of Lutyens work with Portland stone and red brick.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Listen.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Stand with me at the Menin Gate of Ypres and listen.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Through a cutting, a train is roaring on its way.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Rapidly it rises in a great swelling crescendo as it dashes out into the open, and then its journey stops on some giant battlement, stops in a peal of deafening thunder just overhead.
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John BurlinsonNARRATOR
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John BurlinsonNARRATOR
Chapter five, Jim Brent's VC.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
If you pass through the Menin Gate at Ypres and walk up the slight rise that lies on the other side of the moat, you will come to the parting of the ways.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
You will at the same time come to a spot of unprepossessing aspect, whose chief aim to notoriety lies in its shell holes and broken-down houses.
OrlaHOST
And I went there when I studied history and World War I.
OrlaHOST
And I went to honour my great uncle, whose name is inscribed on Menin Gate, having fought in World War I. I had never been to Brussels before, and I absolutely loved it.
OrlaHOST
The name Brussels is derived from the old Dutch word bruopselle, meaning settlement on the marsh.
OrlaHOST
It is said the founding date of Brussels is circa 979 CE, when Charles the Duke of Lower Lofaringia, that's a bit of a word, isn't it, transferred the relics of St. Gajula to the chapel that was near the present-day Cathedral of St. Michael and Gajula.
Terry WenhamHOST
He was evacuated to a field ambulance, and that's where he died later that day.
Terry WenhamHOST
And he's buried in the Menin Road South Cemetery, not far from the Menin Gate.
Terry WenhamHOST
A few weeks later, on the 21st of August, his binoculars and his gold wristwatch were sent back to his father here, where I'm standing now.
Terry WenhamHOST
He left over 3,000 pounds in his will.
Spencer JonesHOST
It's not a victor's memorial.
Spencer JonesHOST
A case could be made that Menin Gate is, and various people have assessed this, discussed as they say, but Thiepval, I don't think you can walk through it and feel anything but a profound sense of loss.
Spencer JonesHOST
And so I have difficulties with this.
Spencer JonesHOST
I have difficulties with this when we've discussed it before.
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