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 Joseph Smith 11740, 2nd Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

First World War Army United Kingdom LA FERTE-SOUS-JOUARRE MEMORIAL

By Madeleine J Clarke

United Kingdom

Captain John Elmsley Bourchier Torkinton, 63rd Palamcottah Regiment, Indian Army

First World War Army Australian CHATBY MEMORIAL

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

Private Thomas Lingard 16/175, 16th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own)

First World War Army United Kingdom THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

By Margaret Holden (Banks)

United Kingdom

Private Robert Black 207543, 49th Battalion, Canadian Infantry - 'My great-uncle...'

First World War Army Canadian BUCQUOY ROAD CEMETERY, FICHEUX

By Marc Wigle

Canada

Lance Corporal 568414 Charles John Williams, Royal Engineers, Northern Army Signal Company

First World War Army United Kingdom CRANBROOK CEMETERY

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

Private 6091 Samuel Francis Burgess of the Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment)

First World War Army United Kingdom CAMBRIN MILITARY CEMETERY

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

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First World War

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Private Joseph Smith 11740, 2nd Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

Captain John Elmsley Bourchier Torkinton, 63rd Palamcottah Regiment, Indian Army

Private Thomas Lingard 16/175, 16th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own)

Private Robert Black 207543, 49th Battalion, Canadian Infantry - 'My great-uncle...'

Lance Corporal 568414 Charles John Williams, Royal Engineers, Northern Army Signal Company

Private 6091 Samuel Francis Burgess of the Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment)

First World War

3634 Stories

Private Joseph Smith 11740, 2nd Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

Captain John Elmsley Bourchier Torkinton, 63rd Palamcottah Regiment, Indian Army

Private Thomas Lingard 16/175, 16th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own)

Private Robert Black 207543, 49th Battalion, Canadian Infantry - 'My great-uncle...'

Lance Corporal 568414 Charles John Williams, Royal Engineers, Northern Army Signal Company

Private 6091 Samuel Francis Burgess of the Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment)

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