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==Notable commemoratees== [[File:Ypres, Menenpoort J5.jpg|thumb|One of the panels of names of the missing dead]] Eight recipients of the [[Victoria Cross]] are commemorated on this memorial, listed under their respective regiments:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/ggbeypre.htm|title=Menin Gate Memorial Ypres |website=www.victoriacross.org.uk}}</ref> * Lance Corporal [[Frederick Fisher (VC)|Frederick Fisher]] VC (Irish-Canadian) * Brigadier-General [[Charles FitzClarence]] VC (highest ranking commemorated) * Company Sergeant Major [[Frederick William Hall]] VC (Canadian) * Second Lieutenant [[Denis George Wyldbore Hewitt]] VC * Lieutenant [[Hugh McKenzie (VC)|Hugh McKenzie]] VC (Canadian) * Captain [[John Vallentin]] VC * Private [[Edward Warner (VC)|Edward Warner]] VC * Second Lieutenant [[Sidney Woodroffe]] VC Others listed include: * Lieutenant [[George Archer-Shee]], original for the title character in [[Terence Rattigan]]'s play ''[[The Winslow Boy]]''<ref>{{CWGC|id=925581|name=Archer-Shee, George|access-date=19 May 2015}}</ref> * Lieutenant Aidan Chavasse, brother of Captain Noel Chavasse VC and Bar.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1606473/AIDAN%20CHAVASSE/|title=Lieutenant Aidan Chavasse | War Casualty Details 1606473 | CWGC|accessdate=16 April 2023}}</ref> * Second Lieutenant [[Harold Bache]], English first-class cricketer<ref name="Wisden">Deaths in the war. ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack]]'' 1917</ref><ref>{{CWGC|id=925986|name=Bache, Harold Godfrey|access-date=19 May 2015}}</ref> * Sergeant Harry Band, reputed victim of the alleged [[The Crucified Soldier|"Crucified Canadian" atrocity]]<ref>{{CWGC|id=921959|name=Band, Harry|access-date=19 May 2015}}</ref> * Captain [[Percy Banks]], English first-class cricketer<ref>{{CWGC|id=1604501|name=Banks, Percy d'Aguilar|access-date=19 May 2015}}</ref> * Captain [[Frank Bingham]], English first-class cricketer<ref>{{CWGC|id=927781|name=Bingham, Frank Miller|access-date=19 May 2015}}</ref> * Second Lieutenant [[Billy Geen|William (Billy) Geen]], Wales [[rugby football|rugby]] international<ref>{{CWGC|id=930643|name=Geen, W P|access-date=19 May 2015}}</ref> * Private [[James Hastie (footballer)|James Hastie]], Scottish footballer<ref>{{CWGC|id=1613249|name=Hastie, James}}</ref> * Lieutenant [[Walter Lyon (poet)|Walter Lyon]], poet<ref>{{CWGC|id=1621239|name=Lyon, Walter Scott Stuart|access-date=19 May 2015}}</ref> * Captain [[Basil Maclear]], Ireland rugby international<ref>{{CWGC|id=1622212|name=Maclear, Basil|access-date=19 May 2015}}</ref> * Lieutenant Colonel [[Edgar Mobbs]], England rugby international<ref>{{CWGC|id=907119|name=Mobbs, Edgar Roberts|access-date=19 May 2015}}</ref> * Captain [[Arthur O'Neill|The Hon. Arthur O'Neill]], first British [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] killed in the war.<ref>{{CWGC|id=1622815|name=O'Neill, The Hon. Arthur Edward Bruce|access-date=19 May 2015}}</ref> * Second Lieutenant [[Clyde Pearce|Clyde Bowman Pearce]],<ref>[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1600282/PEARCE,%20CLYDE%20BOWMAN CWGC casualty record Clive Bowman Pearce].</ref> first Australian born winner of the [[Australian Golf Open]] (1908) * Lance-Sergeant [[Leonard Sutton]], English first-class cricketer (serving with Canadians)<ref>{{CWGC|id=1596411|name=Sutton, Leonard Cecil Leicester|access-date=19 May 2015}}</ref> *Private [[Arthur Wilson (rugby union)|Arthur Wilson]], English rugby international.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/911360/wilson,-arthur-james/|title=Casualty|website=www.cwgc.org|language=en|access-date=2018-11-03}}</ref> *Second Lieutenant [[Euan Lucie-Smith]], the first mixed race officer to be killed in war. (Originally recorded on [[Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing]]) but served with Warwickshire Regiment listed in Menin Gate.
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