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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Battery Sergeant Major Norman Griffiths Ellsworth, 843, 2nd Bde., Australian Field Artillery

First World War Army Australian THE HUTS CEMETERY

By Fred Ellsworth

United Kingdom

Lance Corporal James Edgar Prince, 2136, 1/5th Bn., Hampshire Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom FYZABAD CANTONMENT CEMETERY

By Alison Barnes

United Kingdom

Private Charles Alfred Vigurs - Olympian

First World War Army United Kingdom Pre-war sportsman/woman MAROC BRITISH CEMETERY, GRENAY

Private Charles McGregor, 43166, 16th Bn., H.L.I. - 'In memory of my Great Uncle'

First World War Army United Kingdom THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

By Derek McCraw

United Kingdom

Lance Corporal Edwin James Funnell, 645480, 29th Battalion, Canadian Infantry

First World War Army Canadian VIMY MEMORIAL

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

Private Frederick Osborne Spooner, 3002, 1st/1st Sussex Yeomanry

First World War Army United Kingdom LODSWORTH (ST. PETER) CHURCHYARD

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

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