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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Sapper Harry Jack, 175930, 9th Field Coy., Royal Engineers

First World War Army United Kingdom BARD COTTAGE CEMETERY

By James Stewart Dolier

United Kingdom

Private Arthur Giles, 22435, 2nd Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)

First World War Army United Kingdom VIS-EN-ARTOIS BRITISH CEMETERY, HAUCOURT

By Anne-Marie Fawcett

United Kingdom

Private Percy Coutman - Olympian

First World War Army United Kingdom Pre-war sportsman/woman NEUVILLE-BOURJONVAL BRITISH CEMETERY

Private Robert Cooper - Olympian

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

Private Geoffrey Horsman Coles - Olympian

First World War Army United Kingdom Pre-war sportsman/woman BROWN'S ROAD MILITARY CEMETERY, FESTUBERT

Captain Ralph Chalmers - Olympian

First World War Army United Kingdom Pre-war sportsman/woman YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

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