The Menin Gate - Page 2
An interior view, showing the panels with names that cover the inside of the Gate. The inscription reads: "Ad majorem Dei gloriam, Here are recorded names of officers and men who fell on Ypres Salient, but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in Death."
A close-up of the lists of names. How does their arrangement differ from that of the German memorial? Until the General Strike in 1926 (an outbreak of class-based violence), most war memorials did not arrange the listing of names by rank; after the General Strike, most did. What does this indicate about the relationship between war (commonly seen as leveling) and class society?
The vault, showing the holes which allowed in light.