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I look forward to this thread e3very year. Thanks Martin.
Thanks for looking

Last of part 1:
This is the Menin Gate in Ypres:


Inside the gate are panels, listing the missing of the First World War.
The numbers are astonishing.
There are almost 55,000 men listed on the panels on the gate,
United Kingdom: 40,244
Australia: 6,198
Canada: 6,983
British India: 4,217
South Africa: 564
British West Indies: 6
but the panels only list men up to August 15 1917.. and then they
ran out of roomSo the rest are listed elsewhere, but we'll get to that in a while.
This is inside, panels with lists of names..

We have our own panel on the inside, looks nice..
Men are listed according to regiment or battalion as the case may be.

On January 8th, 1915 Canada had our first battlefield deaths.
From the PPCLI, Norman Fry and HC Bellinger.
There doesn't seem to be consensus on who was first,
but Norman Fry is listed on the panel... took me 10 tries to get this,
he is way up and these panels are big.

OK, you say, great a panel with the missing....
Until you see the panels go around the back of the main building..

and across and then up the stairs..

then back down the stairs and across the landing.....


Very sad to read these panels, and touch them, and remember.
Every night since 1928, ( except for the German occupation from may 1940 to July 1944 )
buglers from the fire department play the Last Post.
You can barely see the buglers bottom right, my camera is complete crap at night.
I went on night 28 thousand and something.
Part 1 finished, now I have to upload part 2....