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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C.E.R.A. Harry Herbert Parks P/M1531, Royal Navy, H.M.S. St. Christopher

First World War Navy United Kingdom FORT WILLIAM (ST. ANDREW) EPISCOPALIAN CHURCHYARD

By Susan Strang

United Kingdom

Private Joseph Bourne 40518, 7th Bn., Bedfordshire Regiment. (1884-1917)

First World War Army United Kingdom ARRAS MEMORIAL

By David Fairman

Australia

Gunner Angus MacDonald 144166, 31st Reserve Bty., Royal Field Artillery

First World War Army United Kingdom KINLOCH LAGGAN (ST. KENNETH) ROMAN CATHOLIC GRAVEYARD

By Susan Strang

United Kingdom

Corporal William John Laver 13209, 2nd Bn., Essex Regiment. (1893-1916)

First World War Army United Kingdom THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

By David Fairman

Australia

Sapper John Gaffney WR/319432, Inland Waterways and Docks, R.E.

First World War Army United Kingdom KILMALLIE OLD CHURCHYARD

By Susan Strang

United Kingdom

Lieutenant Geoffrey Claude Langdale Ottley DSO, 2nd Bn., Scots Guards

First World War Army United Kingdom FORT WILLIAM (ST. ANDREW) EPISCOPALIAN CHURCHYARD

By Susan Strang

United Kingdom

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