Menin Gate name is removed from the Menin Gate. Eight recipients of the Victoria Cross are commemorated on this memorial, listed under their respective regiments: Others listed include: Following the Menin Gate Memorial opening in 1927, the citizens of Ypres wanted to express their gratitude towards those who had given their lives for Belgium's freedom. Hence every evening at 20:00, buglers from the Last Post Association close the road which passes under the memorial and sound the "Last Post". Except for the occupation by the Germans in World War II when the daily ceremony was conducted at Brookwood Military Cemetery, in Surrey,
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