BELGIUM: Officials mark the opening of Menin Memorial Gate (1927)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, gives a speech to relatives of those British soldiers with unknown graves at the opening of the Menin Memorial Gate Full Description: SLATE INFORMATON: And a Monument of Memory BELGIUM: Ypres: EXT GV Ceremony at Menin Memorial Gate GVs of gate and inscription GVs People gathered Lord Plumer delivering speech (unheard) More shots of ceremony and Menin Gate SLATE INFORMATION: Thousands of bereaved relatives make solemn pilgrimage to the immortal salient, where 58,600 British Soldiers have unknown graves Various shots of friends and relatives along through gate Military officers along Lord Plumer onto podium SLATE INFORMATION: The opening of the Menin Gate by F.M. Lord Plumer, amid a tense emotional silence Flags above gateas drop down to uncover inscr