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 Frank Eccott, G/7045, 7th Battalion, The Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment)

First World War Army United Kingdom THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

Private Hubert John Overy, G/8357, 9th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

Private William Thomas Arthur Gudgeon, 67007, 1st Bn., Sherwood Foresters

First World War Army United Kingdom THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

By Brian Frederick Gudgeon

United Kingdom

Second Lieutenant Frank Ablett Stone, Norfolk Regt. (attd. 1/8th King's Liverpools) - 'Great Uncle Frank'

First World War Army United Kingdom TYNE COT MEMORIAL

By Bridget Stone

United Kingdom

Lance Corporal Thomas William Spurr, 858, AIF - 'An ANZAC in Ossett, West Yorkshire'

First World War Army United Kingdom QUINN'S POST CEMETERY, ANZAC

By Anne-Marie Fawcett

United Kingdom

Sergeant Otto Wind 433, 14th Bde, Australian Field Artillery - of Denmark

First World War Army Non-Commonwealth BELGIAN BATTERY CORNER CEMETERY

By Jørgen Flintholm

Denmark

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