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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Captain John Yate Robinson – Olympian

First World War Army United Kingdom Pre-war sportsman/woman GREAT MALVERN CEMETERY

Major Reginald “Reggie” George Pridmore – Olympian

First World War Army United Kingdom Pre-war sportsman/woman GIAVERA BRITISH CEMETERY, ARCADE

Private George Washington Ellsworth - From Ballarat, Victoria to Messines, Passchendaele and Villers-Bretonneux

First World War Army Australian HEATH CEMETERY, HARBONNIERES

By Fred Ellsworth

United Kingdom

Private TR10/159137 Joseph Reginald Herbert Cooper, the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regt

First World War Army United Kingdom OLD ROMNEY (ST. CLEMENT) CHURCHYARD

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

Lieutenant Roderic Magrath Oliver, Grenadier Guards

First World War Army United Kingdom MORY ABBEY MILITARY CEMETERY, MORY

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

Private Abraham Acton VC, 10694, “B” Coy. 2nd Bn., Border Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom Victoria Cross holder LE TOURET MEMORIAL

By John and Mary Holland

United Kingdom

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