Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing from the following battles, which were fought outside the Ypres Salient in the area around Ploegsteert: The memorial also commemorates the names of three recipients of the Victoria Cross who have no known grave: Since 7 June 1999, the "Comité du Memorial de Ploegsteert" has arranged for the Last Post to be played at the memorial on the first Friday of each month. Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing The Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) memorial in Belgium for missing soldiers of World War I. It commemorates men from the Allied Powers who fought
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Dominions and India also erected memorials on which they commemorated their missing: the Neuve-Chapelle Memorial for the forces of India, the Vimy Memorial by Canada, the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial by Australia, the Delville Wood Memorial by South Africa and the Beaumont-Hamel Memorial by Newfoundland. The programme of commemorating the dead of the Great War was considered essentially complete with the inauguration of the Thiepval Memorial in 1932, though the Vimy Memorial would not be finished until 1936, the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial until 1938 and stonemasons were still conducting work on the Menin Gate when Germany invaded Belgium in 1940. The only memorial