The Menin Gate Memorial at Ypres in Belgium stands on the Eastern side of the town on the road to Menin. It takes the form of a huge arch surrounded by staircases and ramparts on which are engraved the names of 54,000 officers and men who fell in the Ypres Salient before 15/16 August 1917 and who have no known grave.
The arch is inscribed :
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO
STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE
OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Each night at 8pm the buglers of the local fire brigade sound the Last Post beneath the arch.
Lewisham Residents on this memorial include:
- Bailey, Ernest Edgar
- Bailey, Frederick John
- Balcombe, Charles Henry
- Boothby, Ernest Brooke
- Brown, Percy Alfred
- Cane, William Robert
- Cole, Henry Wilfred
- Drysdale, Adrian Castlelaw
- Firmin, Thomas Nash
- Godfree, Tom Hatcher
- Kerry, Harry Edgar Albert
- Manning, Robert Patrick
- Mitchenall, Sydney James
- Muggeridge, Edwin
- Naves, Richard
- Nicholls, Charles Edward
- Potter, Harold Godwin
- Ross, Donald Hamilton
- Rycroft, Frank Harold
- Seymour, George Ernest
- Silcox, Walter
- Silvester, Reginald
- Slow, Eric Charles Dodd
- Smith, Edwin Ernest
- Spurling, Montague W
- Sudds, William Childs
- Tovey, Harold Stephen
- Wallis, Alfred George
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