Template:Infobox Military Memorial

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[edit] Military memorial infobox

Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing
Commonwealth of Nations
For missing soldiers of World War I
Unveiled	24 July 1927
Location	50°51′07.6″N, 02°53′30.1″E 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.