Shortly after the war a huge triumphal arch, known as the Menin Gate, was built at the entrance to Ypres. It is dedicated "to the armies of the British Empire who stood here from 1914 to 1918, and to those of their dead who have no known grave."

This magnificent building was unveiled in the summer of 1927. There are 54,900 names of soldiers from all over the (then) Empire, reaching the top of the building, and many are quite impossible to read because the arch is so high. Here is a small sample of the fallen soldiers from the Bedfordshire Regiment.

There was in fact only enough room to inscribe the names of those who had been killed between 1914 and summer 1917; the remaining 34,888 names are on a memorial at the rear of the Tyne Cot Cemetery.

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