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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Private John MacPherson, 310267, 7th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders - 'Life Story'

First World War Army United Kingdom ARRAS MEMORIAL

By Lynda Grange

United Kingdom

Major General John Charles (Jock) Campbell VC DSO* MC, General Staff

First World War Second World War Army United Kingdom Victoria Cross holder CAIRO WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

By MALCOLM PEEL

United Kingdom

Corporal John Gordon Ashton L/4986, 21st (Empress of India's) Lancers

Army First World War United Kingdom BATH (LOCKSBROOK) CEMETERY

United Kingdom

Private Thomas Willie Green & The Story of a West Yorkshire Family

First World War Army United Kingdom ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN

By Anne-Marie Fawcett

United Kingdom

Private Thomas Weale, 160692, Shropshire Yeomanry (attd. 1st Bn. Cheshire Regt.)

First World War Army United Kingdom THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

By William Thompson

United Kingdom

Captain Norman Kingsley Street, Worcestershire Regiment ~ fell at Sari Bair

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

United Kingdom

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