Editing Menin Gate (section)

{{Short description|World War I memorial in Ypres, Belgium}}
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{{Infobox military memorial
|name=Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing 
|body=[[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]]
|image=Ieper Menenpoort R05.jpg
|image_size=300px
|caption=The Menin Gate
|commemorates=the missing of Commonwealth nations (except [[New Zealand]] and [[Dominion of Newfoundland|Newfoundland]]) who died in the [[Ypres Salient]] during the [[First World War]].
|coordinates={{coord|50|51|08|N|02|53|30|E|region:FR_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
|nearest_town=[[Ypres]], West Flanders, Belgium
|designer=[[Reginald Blomfield]]
|inscription=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
|established=
|unveiled=24 July 1927
|total=
|commemorated=54,896
|by_country=[[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth nations]]:
* [[United Kingdom]]: 40,244
* [[Canada]]: 6,983
* [[Australia]]: 6,198
* [[South Africa]]: 564
* [[British Raj|British India]]: 414
* [[British West Indies]]: 6
|by_war=[[World War I]]: 54,896
|source={{cwgc cemetery|91800}}
| embedded             = {{designation list | embed=yes
   | designation1            = WHS
   | designation1_offname    =Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)
   | designation1_type       = Cultural
   | designation1_criteria   = i, ii, vi
   | designation1_date       = [[List of World Heritage Sites by year of inscription#2023 (45th session)|2023]] <small>(45th [[World Heritage Committee|session]])</small>
   | designation1_number     = [https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1567 1567-FL17]
  }}
}}
The '''Menin Gate''' ({{langx|nl|Menenpoort}}), officially the '''Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing''',{{efn|name=fn1|"Menin" is the traditional name of the gate in this location of Ypres' city walls because it leads to the town of [[Menen]].}} is a [[war memorial]] in [[Ypres]], [[Belgium]], dedicated to the [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] soldiers who were killed in the [[Ypres Salient]] of [[World War I]] and whose graves are unknown. The memorial is located at the eastern exit of the town and marks the starting point for one of the main roads that led Allied soldiers to the front line.

Designed by Sir [[Reginald Blomfield]] and built by the Imperial War Graves Commission (since renamed the [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]]), the Menin Gate Memorial was unveiled on 24 July 1927.<ref name="encyclopedia">{{cite web|title=Monuments of the First and Second World Wars |author=Jacqueline Hucker |publisher=The Canadian Encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/monuments-of-the-first-and-second-world-wars/ |access-date=2011-11-21 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810091629/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009128 |archive-date=10 August 2011 }}</ref> In early 2023, the monument was closed for extensive restoration works, expected to be completed in time for the memorial's centenary in 2027.<ref>{{Cite web |last=CWGC |title=Menin Gate Memorial |url=https://www.cwgc.org/our-work/menin-gate-memorial/ |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=CWGC |language=en}}</ref>