Remembering the Missing - the Menin Gate & Last Post, Ypres, Belgium
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
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The site of the Menin Gate was chosen because of the hundreds of thousands of men who passed through it on their way to the battlefields. It commemorates casualties from the forces of Australia, Canada, India, South Africa and United Kingdom who died in the Salient. In the case of United Kingdom casualties, only those prior 16 August 1917 (with some exceptions). United Kingdom and New Zealand servicemen who died after that date are named on the memorial at Tyne Cot, a site which marks the furthest point reached by Commonwealth forces in Belgium until nearly the end of the war. New Zealand casualties that died prior to 16 August 1917 are commemorated on memorials at Buttes New British Cemetery and Messines Ridge British Cemetery.
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I attended the ceremony in April 2017 as part of my trip to attend the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Menin Gate is a very moving ceremony which if anyone has a chance to attend they should seriously consider. It goes on rain or shine.
Pretty excited that I will be laying a wreath there for the May 30 ceremony in honor of my grandmother's cousin Edward Whittaker of the 1st Btln East Lancashire Regiment, on panel 34.
My family is fortunate not to have a family member commemorated here, but there are many thousands who are not so lucky.
We must remember them.
I don’t know much about WWl I’m hoping to leave a lot from you Chris. I'm really exciting to embark off this new journey. Thanks for starting this ch.😊
Two of my Great Great Grandfather William Turton's younger brothers, Joseph and Charlie Turton are on the Menin gate, I have no idea if William fought in the Great War but it is unlikely as he was over 18 before 1914 so he would have had to survive all the way through the war. Me and my brother are named Joseph and Charlie but this is a coincidence.
Did you have the chane to visit "l'anneau de la mémoire" next to Notre-Dame-de-Lorette?
LEST WE FORGET.
I'm shocked that Hitler or the generals in the Wehrmacht allowed this, and other memorials, to stand when Germany occupied France and Belgium. Any ideas as to why?
As veterans of the Great War themselves, for all their many horrible choices, they showed great respect for these monuments to their enemies.
When was this filmed?
November 2022, before they started doing restoration work on it.
I have watched everything you have on WW1 on all your channels ..never taught anything about the war in school. My 94 year old mother tells me about her uncles and cousins that told her a few stories when she was a kid about when they fought in that war. So much was going on in the world then..THANK YOU SO MUCH...I have learned so much from you...
My grandfather got his draft notice, after he almost died from the flu, a few days before the war ended.
@@condabogoff973 I took AP United States History last year as a high school junior, and even that class has only 1 chapter on WW1 in a 30 chapter textbook
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Its a shame isn't it? I am over 60 years old and feel ignorant. I have studied the civil war on my own and WW2 on my own know some about Korea and of course was about 13 when Vietnam war ended. Still struggle with that one.