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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Gunner George Farrow 92366, 124th Siege Bty., Royal Garrison Artillery

First World War Army United Kingdom MENDINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY

By Sarah Whithorn

United Kingdom

Lance Corporal Frank Field Cox 200238, 1st/4th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom BASRA MEMORIAL

By Sarah Whithorn

United Kingdom

Rifleman Arthur Henry John Chalcraft 203521, 1st/8th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom GAZA WAR CEMETERY

By Sarah Whithorn

United Kingdom

Second Lieutenant [temp. Flying Officer] Sidney Arthur Grimwade, 54th Training Depot Station, RAF

First World War Air Force United Kingdom STOKE-ON-TRENT (HARTSHILL) CEMETERY

By Jeremy Elsworth

United Kingdom

Private Ernest Haden - A British Home Child

First World War Army Canadian LA CHAUDIERE MILITARY CEMETERY, VIMY

By Jacky Cooper

United Kingdom

Private William Caplehorn 9654, 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom HELLES MEMORIAL

By Sarah Whithorn

United Kingdom

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