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Radio Leicester,10 mins

WW1 Menin Gate

Ben Jackson

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This year we visited the area around the town of Ypres. During the war it was reduced to little more than a pile of rubble, in fact the rebuilding only finished in 1967. One of the most important places in the town today is the Menin Gate where every evening the Last Post is played. Ben was there with Richard Lane the Leicestershire Regiment's historian..

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