

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)


Ordinary Seaman Sidney Whiteley J/61741, Royal Navy, HMS 'Partridge'
By Philip Baldock
United Kingdom

Private 23896 Charles Whiteley of the 10th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment
By Philip Baldock
United Kingdom

Private John Downs 5976, 9th Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F. - 'Bullecourt'
By G.Downs
United Kingdom

Private James Henry Ratcliffe 10492, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
By David P.Whithorn
United Kingdom

Private Frederick Thomas Lovell 31526, 162nd Protection Company, Royal Defence Corps
By David P.Whithorn
United Kingdom
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