

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)


Gunner William Keith Bland 196178, 421st Battery, Royal Field Artillery
By Philip Baldock
United Kingdom

Serjeant Edwin Fairlamb 7760, 12th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers
By Jon Gedling
United Kingdom

Private Ernest Octavius Fairlamb 8323, 13th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers
By Jon Gedling
United Kingdom

Lieutenant Richard Stone 201 Squadron RFC
By Philip Baldock
United Kingdom

Rifleman Reginald Ernest Bowen 12880, 11th Bn., King's Royal Rifle Corps (1899 - 1917)
By Scott Wishart
United Kingdom
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