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)
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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