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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Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor - Olympian

First World War Army Canadian Pre-war sportsman/woman YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

Lieutenant Colonel John Barclay Scriven, 21st (Empress of India's) Lancers

First World War Army United Kingdom DELHI MEMORIAL (INDIA GATE)

United Kingdom

Captain Edward Brassey Egerton, ‘D’ Sqdn, 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)

First World War Army United Kingdom HABARCQ COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

United Kingdom

Private G/2188 Maurice Harold Oliver Hazelden 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom DELVILLE WOOD CEMETERY, LONGUEVAL

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

Ordinary Seaman J/23974 William Twort of HMS Bulwark

First World War Navy United Kingdom PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

Rifleman S/17629 Arthur Lavender of the 2nd Battalion, the Rifle Brigade

First World War Army United Kingdom GOUZEAUCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

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