

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 Stanley Gains 27955, 1st Bn., Royal Warwickshire Regiment
By Alison Barnes
United Kingdom

Private Albert Hiram Harman 53797, 58th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps
By Philip Baldock
United Kingdom

Lieutenant Francis Cecil Hyde, 1st Battalion, Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
By Philip Baldock
United Kingdom

Captain Ralph William Homan, 1st Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
By Philip Baldock
United Kingdom

Rifleman Thomas Stapleton, S/4959, 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade
By Alison Barnes
United Kingdom
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