

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 Wilfred Fairlamb 16021, 2nd Regt., South African Infantry
By Jon Gedling
United Kingdom

Lance Corporal Frederick Deacon 12820, 6th Bn., The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
By Philip Baldock
United Kingdom

Sapper Alfred Ernest Pelham Colbran 285, 1st Home Counties Field Regiment, Royal Engineers
By Philip Baldock
United Kingdom

Private Leonard Ratliffe 10066, 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment
By Sarah Whithorn
United Kingdom

Private Charles William Ratliffe 10068, 10th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment
By Sarah Whithorn
United Kingdom
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