Not far from Menin Gate is another memorial to the fallen of the First World War. In fact it is the largest British Commonwealth cemetery in the world with 12,000 graves, of which 8,367 have "A Soldier of the Great War" engraved on their headstones. A stone wall that surrounds the cemetery has the names of 35,000 Commonwealth soldiers who fell between August 17 1917-November 11th 1918 and have no known grave.

1914 - HERE ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT, BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL
GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH - 1918

Inscription engraved on the frieze above the panels which contain the names of the missing.