

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)


Private Charles Davy 18/1496, 10th Bn., West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
By Margaret Holden (Banks)
United Kingdom

Company Serjeant Major Alfred Nelson Baker, 90, 1st Bn., London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
By Nick Jenkins
United Kingdom

Second Lieutenant Hastings Fortescue Boles, 17th Lancers and 1st Squadron RFC
By Steve Tock
United Kingdom

Sapper George Robert Burgess WR/312128, Royal Engineers, Inland Water Transport
By Philip Baldock
United Kingdom

Corporal Robert Slipper Barnes 201047, RAF, Polegate Air Station
By Philip Baldock
United Kingdom
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