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Last Post (Paperback)
Wouter Sinaeve
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R614
R478
Discovery Miles 4 780
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.A moving souvenir of Ypres in Belgium, where so many British
soldiers died and were lost in Flanders Fields After the First
World War, the town of Ypres was reduced to ruins. It was literally
rebuilt from the ground up. The Menin Gate, was also restored; the
place where tens of thousands of soldiers left for the Front, never
to return. Today the Menin Gate is inscribed with the names of
55,000 soldiers from across the British Empire. It is a monument
for those who fell and were forever lost, those who could not be
buried. Their names are ordered hierarchically by unit and rank,
but many of these men were conscripted civilians, not professional
soldiers, serving their country only for the duration of the war.
The Menin Gate is recent, living history and still an extremely
evocative and haunting place. Thousands of men, fathers, sons,
brothers...a whole generation lost, but not forgotten. Every day at
20.00 hrs, a lone bugler at the Menin Gate sounds the Last Post and
the fallen are remembered. Text in English, Dutch and French"
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