Template:Infobox Military Memorial
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[edit] Military memorial infobox
| Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing | |
|---|---|
| Commonwealth of Nations | |
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| For missing soldiers of World War I | |
| Unveiled | 24 July 1927 |
| Location | near Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium |
| Designer | Sir Reginald Blomfield |
| To the armies of the British Empire who stood here from 1914 to 1918 and to those of their dead who have no known grave | |
A military memorial infobox may be used to summarize information about a single military memorial. The infobox should be added using the {{Infobox Military Memorial}} template, as shown below:
{{Infobox Military Memorial
|name=
|country=
|image=
|caption=
|commemorates=
|unveiled=
|location=
|nearest_town=
|designer=
|inscription=
}}
- name – the formal name of the memorial.
- country – the country whose forces are being commemorated.
- image – optional – an image of the memorial. The image must be given in the form [[Image:Example.jpg|300px]]; in particular, the thumb attribute must not be selected.
- caption – optional – the text to be placed below the image.
- commemorates – the force, nationality, or type of dead being honored (e.g. "the British of all wars", "the missing of World War I", "the RAF dead of World War II").
- unveiled – the date when the memorial was officially unveiled or dedicated.
- designer – optional – the person or group that designed the memorial.
- location – the location of the memorial (often given as a coordinate pair by using
{{coor dms|dd|mm|ss|N|dd|mm|ss|E|}}). - nearest_town – optional – in cases where the location is given as a coordinate pair, the town nearest to the memorial.
- inscription – optional – the main inscription on the memorial, if any.
