Menin Gate offered to the citizens of Ypres for the ornament of their city and in commemoration of the days where the British Army defended it against the invader." Reaction to the Menin Gate, the first of the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission's Memorials to the Missing, ranged from its condemnation by the war poet Siegfried Sassoon, to praise by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. Sassoon described the Menin Gate in his poem 'On Passing the New Menin Gate', saying that the dead of the Ypres Salient would "deride this sepulchre of crime". Zweig, in contrast, praised the simplicity of the
British Cemetery Montevideo Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen British Cemetery Montevideo Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen British Cemetery Montevideo Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen contains information about servicemen of different nationalities whose tombs can be found within the Cemetery. A few of the ships mentioned are well known to the general public, such as or , which fought in the Battle of the River Plate. The British Cemetery Montevideo is included in the Roll of Honour and contains eight graves maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. This Section of the British Cemetery contains the graves of quite a number of sailors of different nationalities, although the majority are of