The Great War 1914-18

Friday 06 November 1998 00:02 GMT
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The Great War 1914-18: `Here are recorded names of officers and men who fell in Ypres salient but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and

honoured burial given to their comrades in death.' The Menin Gate at Ypres in Belgium bears 54,896 names; every night at 8pm, buglers of the Ypres

fire brigade sound the Last Post beside it Brian Harris

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