The Menin Gate dominates Ypres and it is probably the one Great War memorial that most people have heard of. It is also probably the most visited Great War memorial on the Western Front (see my post here about the daily Last Post Ceremony).
The Menin Gate was designed in classical style by Sir Reginald Blomfield. Inside and out, enormous panels bear the names of 54,896 officers and men of the Commonwealth who died in the Ypres salient between the outbreak of war and 15 August 1917, and have no known grave.
The name of my ancestor, Arthur Benjamin Darlington, can be found on Panel 37. He was my second cousin three times removed and he was a private in the South Lancashire Regiment. He died on 14 June 1917.
A Memorial has been erected which, in its simple grandeur, fulfils this object, and now it can be said of each one in whose honour we are assembled today: He is not missing; he is here!
Lord Plumer of Messines | at the opening of the Memorial in 1927
This West London Life 
What a tribute & so sad that “we” needed it because so many lost, although now found in these walls of thanks & recognition. That is very interesting that you found a relative.
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There were so many missing that more had to be added to the memorial at Tyne Cot … more on that soon.
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It must have been very emotional to see the name of your relative set in the stone there. What a lovely memorial to those fallen soldiers.
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I did feel quite emotional, which then felt quite odd when I considered more than a century had passed since his death.
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