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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Lieutenant Duncan Mackinnon - Olympian

First World War Army United Kingdom Pre-war sportsman/woman TYNE COT MEMORIAL

Private George Arthur Baker, 10795, 1st Battalion, Queens (East Surrey) Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom GROVE TOWN CEMETERY, MEAULTE

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

18111 Private James Chivers Wiltshire Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom AVEBURY (ST. JAMES) CHURCHYARD

By Kevin Russell

United Kingdom

Second Lieutenant William Colvin, 8th Battalion, Australian Infantry, AIF

First World War Army Australian VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MEMORIAL

Australia

Second Lieutenant George Adamson, 12th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry

First World War Army United Kingdom LOOS MEMORIAL

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

Private William MacPherson, 29456, 6th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers - 'Life story'

First World War Army United Kingdom POZIERES MEMORIAL

By Lynda Grange

United Kingdom

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