Winter landscape in Ypres : the Menin Gate Memorial after snowfall

Winter landscape with the iconic monument of Ypres built after WWI in honor of the fallen British servicemen

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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.

(CWCG)

It’s hard not be awed by the sheer scale of the Menin Gate. The archway covers the road with plenty of pedestrian space on each side and is over 35m long.

(One trip at a time)

Thousands of Australian Imperial Force soldiers marched past the lions and into the muddy trenches of the Ypres Salient in 1917.

(Central Western Daily)