The Menin Gate is one of four memorials to missing British and Commonwealth soldiers from the First World War in the area around the Ypres Salient, and features more than 54,000 names.
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian doctor, wrote the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’, which inspired the symbol of the poppy to commemorate members of the military killed in war.
The Christmas Truce saw soldiers on the First World War’s Western Front take part in a series of unofficial ceasefires.
Over five thousand French Algerian, Moroccan and territorial troops died within ten minutes of the chlorine gas being released.
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