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
World War I what extent the civilian homefront accepted and endorsed the war effort. Memorials were erected in thousands of villages and towns. Close to battlefields, those buried in improvised burial grounds were gradually moved to formal graveyards under the care of organisations such as the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the American Battle Monuments Commission, the German War Graves Commission, and Le Souvenir français. Many of these graveyards also have central monuments to the missing or unidentified dead, such as the Menin Gate memorial and the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. In 1915 John McCrae, a Canadian army doctor, wrote