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2 unusual facts about Menin Gate


Christ's Hospital Band

The band is due to go on tour again in July 2014 in Germany and Belgium where the band will play, for a second time in recent years, under the Menin Gate in Ypres.

Ieper railway station

The station is near the Menin Gate and other places associated with the First World War with British and Commonwealth war graves located alongside the line from the Kortrijk direction, known as Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm) Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery.


Post Office Rifles

There is no formal memorial to the Rifles in France, but many of the fallen from the Great War have their names recorded on memorials such as the Menin Gate at Ypres and Sir Edward Lutyens' memorial to the missing at Thiepval.


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