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Ypres (Ieper) Menin Gate

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Thunder
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Ypres (Ieper) Menin Gate

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Researchers and visitors may like to note that the names on the memorial will be covered up for two years as part of restoration work. Incidentally when I visited the memorial at Arras (northern France) it needs work done as the names were fading about twenty years ago, caused by weathering by the wind.

https://www.cwgc.org/our-work/menin-gate-memorial/
paulr1949
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Re: Ypres (Ieper) Menin Gate

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I visited Ypres and battle areas/cemeteries in the area and in northern France a few years ago and found it all a sombre and moving experience. A couple of years later I discovered that a couple of my (fairly distant) ancestors’ names were inscribed on the gate.
Paul
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