

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)


Stoker 1st Class Charles Sturman SS/113791, Royal Navy, 'HMS Zealandia'
By Nick Tucker
United Kingdom

Second Lieutenant Robert Deucher, 3rd/2nd Scottish Horse - 'A Scottish Northumberland Brewer'
By Michael Booth
United Kingdom

Captain James Henry Webster Hay

Corporal William Frederick Venables TF/201329, 20th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
By Nigel Walker
United Kingdom

Private Ralph Freer Peach 39777, 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
By Philip Baldock
United Kingdom
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