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Menin Gate at Midnight
Menin Gate at Midnight (also known as Ghosts of Menin Gate) is a 1927 painting by Australian artist Will Longstaff. The painting depicts a host of ghostly soldiers marching across a field in front of the Menin Gate war memorial. The painting is part of the collection of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Longstaff painted the work after attending the unveiling of the Menin Gate memorial, at Ypres in Belgium, on 24 July 1927. The memorial commemorated those men of the British Empire, including
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Menin may refer to:
- Menin, the French name for the Belgian town of Menen
- Menin, a little village in the municipality of Cesiomaggiore, Italy
- Menin or MEN1, a tumor suppressor associated with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1
- Měnín, village and municipality in the Czech Republic
- Menin (title), office in Ancien Régime France
See also.
- Menin Gate, a war memorial in Ypres, Belgium
- "Menin Gate at Midnight", a 1927