

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)


Second Lieutenant Sydney Walter, 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards
By Sarah Whithorn
United Kingdom

Private Walter James Titheridge 29310, 6th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry
By Sarah Whithorn
United Kingdom

Corporal Frederick James Norgate MM 46087, “B” Coy. 19th Bn., Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
By Sarah Whithorn
United Kingdom

Lance Corporal Leonard George Gibbs 200917, 2nd/4th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment
By Sarah Whithorn
United Kingdom

Private Horace Vitler 123842, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
By Philip Baldock
United Kingdom
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