A model of the Menin Gate Memorial at Ieper (Ypres), Belgium. The historical notice reads " The ...

A model of the Menin Gate Memorial at Ieper (Ypres), Belgium. The historical notice reads " The Menin Gate Memorial was erected in honour of 56000 officers & men of the British Forces (including 6160 members of the AIF) who fell in the Ypres salient & who have no known grave. Their names are incised in stone panels fixed to the interior walls. This model was made for the Imperial War Graves Commission before the construction of the Memorial was commenced & and was subsequently presented to the Commonwealth Government for preservation in the Australian War Memorial". The model was transferred on 12 April 1956 to Sydney Legacy for safekeeping. The actual memorial, which spans one of the two main gateways into Ieper, was unveiled by Field Marshal Lord Plumer of Messines in the presence of King Albert I of the Belgians on 24 July 1927. The panels inside the 120 foot long arch, the stairways and upper loggias bear the names of 40000 British (who died before 16 August 1917), 7000 Canadian, 6000 Australian, nearly 600 South African and 400 Indian soldiers who died in the salient and have no known grave. Field Marshal Plumer probably had this last fact in mind when he uttered the words " He is not missing. He is here." World War I Australians knew the town as Ypres but it was later changed to its Flemish name Ieper. (Donor The Argus, Melbourne)