Menin Gate in Ypres Belgium We will remember them
At 11am on 11 November 1918 "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" an armistice with Germany was signed and a ceasefire came into defect. This ended World War I in Belgium and Europe. Menin Gate Ypres Belgium Position of Ypres during World War I During the First World War, Ypres in Belgium had a very strategic position because it stood in the path of Germany's planned sweep across the rest of Belgium as had been called for in the Schlieffen Plan. By October 1914, the much battered Belgian Army broke the dykes on the Yser River to the north of the City to keep the Western tip of Belgium out of German hands. Ypres was the centre of a road network anchored one end of his defensice feature and it was also essential for the Germans if they wanted to take the Channel Ports through which British support was flooding into France. For the Allies, Ypres was also important because it was the last major Belgian town that was not under Ge...
