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 Sydney Bridgland L/9583, 1st Bn., The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) (1893 – 1918)

First World War Army United Kingdom ARRAS MEMORIAL

By Scott Wishart

United Kingdom

Private Charles Davy 18/1496, 10th Bn., West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

First World War Army United Kingdom THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

By Margaret Holden (Banks)

United Kingdom

Company Serjeant Major Alfred Nelson Baker, 90, 1st Bn., London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)

First World War Army United Kingdom SANCTUARY WOOD CEMETERY

By Nick Jenkins

United Kingdom

Second Lieutenant Hastings Fortescue Boles, 17th Lancers and 1st Squadron RFC

First World War Air Force United Kingdom BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD

United Kingdom

Sapper George Robert Burgess WR/312128, Royal Engineers, Inland Water Transport

First World War Army United Kingdom STE. MARIE CEMETERY, LE HAVRE

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

Corporal Robert Slipper Barnes 201047, RAF, Polegate Air Station

First World War Air Force United Kingdom EASTBOURNE (OCKLYNGE) CEMETERY

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

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