Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate by Brian Harris

£70.00£920.00

Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate by Brian Harris

£70.00£920.00

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Every evening at 8pm the last post is played by members of the Ypres Firebrigade under the arches at the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium. Visitors attend and can lay wreaths in memory of those 54,406 Officers and Men lost to the Flanders mud in WW1 and have no known grave. Their 54,406 names are inscribed on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial at one of the exit road from where the troops in WW1 went to the front line.

Caption information below is from the CWGC web site:

The Menin Gate is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient. Broadly speaking, the Salient stretched from Langemarck in the north to the northern edge in Ploegsteert Wood in the south, but it varied in area and shape throughout the war.

The Salient was formed during the First Battle of Ypres in October and November 1914, when a small British Expeditionary Force succeeded in securing the town before the onset of winter, pushing the German forces back to the Passchendaele Ridge. The Second Battle of Ypres began in April 1915 when the Germans released poison gas into the Allied lines north of Ypres. This was the first time gas had been used by either side and the violence of the attack forced an Allied withdrawal and a shortening of the line of defence.

There was little more significant activity on this front until 1917, when in the Third Battle of Ypres an offensive was mounted by Commonwealth forces to divert German attention from a weakened French front further south. The initial attempt in June to dislodge the Germans from the Messines Ridge was a complete success, but the main assault north-eastward, which began at the end of July, quickly became a dogged struggle against determined opposition and the rapidly deteriorating weather.

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The printing:

C-type prints are notable for their continuous tone and vibrant colours. The first widely used colour print process, modern c-type prints are printed from high resolution digital files produced from drum-scanned negatives or transparencies.

C-type prints use dye-based photographic papers and should not be confused with inkjet, or giclée prints. Read more about C-type printing HERE.

The paper:

Fujicolor Crystal Archive Digitalpaper Type DP II is a silver halide color paper with a thicker base and high stiffness, designed exclusively for digital printing. When used on medium-or large-scale digital printer systems or the Fujifilm Frontier minilabs, this paper yields high-image-quality digital prints that make it suitable for such professional uses as portrait or commercial photography.

It has the highest level of image stability, so it is ideal for display purposes. Read more about our papers HERE.

The frames:

Add depth to your wall art with our frames. A deep, wooden frame, the profile includes a subtle texture effect.

This deep wooden 34mm x 20mm frame featuring a 30mm rebate for added depth,  gives our prints the perfect setting to display your chosen print. We have kept it simple and elegant only offering a charcoal black wooden finnish for your walls.

Read more about our frames HERE.

Brand Fleet Street’s Finest
Dimensions 8 x 10″ to 40 x 60″ (plus frame and mount)
Made in the UK YES
Material  Wood, Perspex
Process A Lambda C-type print
Orientation Landscape

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Description

Every evening at 8 pm the last post is played by members of the Ypres Firebrigade under the arches at the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium. Visitors attend and can lay wreaths in memory of those 54,406 Officers and Men lost to the Flanders mud in WW1 and have no known grave. Their 54,406 names are inscribed on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial at one of the exit roads from where the troops in WW1 went to the front line.