

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)


Lieutenant James Shirley Heathcote, 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards
By Sarah Whithorn
United Kingdom

Private Thomas Henry Harman 5316, 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment
By Sarah Whithorn
United Kingdom

Second Lieutenant Charles Graham Rivers Halliday, 225th Field Coy., Royal Engineers
By Sarah Whithorn
United Kingdom

Private George Henry Betteridge 26586, Wiltshire Regiment
By Sarah Whithorn
United Kingdom

Corporal Derwent John Bavage 13674, 102nd Coy., Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
By Sarah Whithorn
United Kingdom
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