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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Rifleman 51287 Harry Stringer Gilbert (1899 - 1918)

First World War Army United Kingdom ARNEKE BRITISH CEMETERY

By Scott Wishart

United Kingdom

Rifleman 111542 William Thomas Merritt (1895 - 1915)

First World War Army United Kingdom CHOCQUES MILITARY CEMETERY

By Scott Wishart

United Kingdom

Flight Sub Lieutenant J/2419 Richard Swallow, RNAS Polegate

First World War Navy United Kingdom EASTBOURNE (OCKLYNGE) CEMETERY

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

Corporal Robert Bennett Pitts 'He was loved before he died'

First World War Army United Kingdom Women at war VLAMERTINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

By Diane Bennett Pitts

United Kingdom

Private 9559 Archibald Herbert Davis of the 1st Battalion, the Dorsetshire Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom EASTBOURNE (OCKLYNGE) CEMETERY

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

Private Francis Joseph Tucker, 16088, 1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom BASRA MEMORIAL

United Kingdom

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