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 Herbert Hodgson Barker 16/543, 16th Bn., West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

First World War Army United Kingdom THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

By Margaret Holden (Banks)

United Kingdom

Gunner William Keith Bland 196178, 421st Battery, Royal Field Artillery

First World War Army United Kingdom EASTBOURNE (OCKLYNGE) CEMETERY

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

Serjeant Edwin Fairlamb 7760, 12th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers

First World War Army United Kingdom LOOS MEMORIAL

United Kingdom

Private Ernest Octavius Fairlamb 8323, 13th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers

First World War Army United Kingdom CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

United Kingdom

Lieutenant Richard Stone 201 Squadron RFC

First World War Air Force United Kingdom HEATH CEMETERY, HARBONNIERES

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

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

First World War Army United Kingdom YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

By Scott Wishart

United Kingdom

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