First World War

More than a million Commonwealth casualties of the First World War can be found in our beautiful cemeteries and on our iconic memorials. The battlefields of the Western Front and Gallipoli are infamous for huge losses of life, but on land, sea and air, men and women around the world gave their lives and are commemorated in perpetuity. Tell us their stories. (Image: © IWM Q 8398)

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Private Bernard Colin Watson - 'Laughing and joking when it happened'

First World War Army United Kingdom YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

By David Ingleby

United Kingdom

Corporal Albert Alecock, 14348, 9th (Reserve) Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry

First World War Army United Kingdom EUSTON (ST. GENEVIEVE) CHURCHYARD

United Kingdom

Private G/5495 Frederick “Freddy” Tutt, 7th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)

First World War Army United Kingdom THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

Private Albert Asplen - Killed at Loos

First World War Army United Kingdom CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ

By David Ingleby

United Kingdom

Captain James Fitz-Morris MC & Bar, RFC and RAF

First World War Air Force United Kingdom POLMONT CHURCHYARD

By Jim Leggat (Volunteer Speaker)

United Kingdom

Gunner 93330 John Joseph Viccars, 207th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

First World War Army United Kingdom Post Office ARRAS MEMORIAL

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

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