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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Captain Oswald Armitage Carver - Olympian

First World War Army United Kingdom Pre-war sportsman/woman LANCASHIRE LANDING CEMETERY

Gunner George Butterfield - Olympian

First World War Army United Kingdom Pre-war sportsman/woman BIRR CROSS ROADS CEMETERY

Captain Edmond William Bury - Olympian

First World War Army United Kingdom Pre-war sportsman/woman RUE-PETILLON MILITARY CEMETERY, FLEURBAIX

Serjeant Isaac Bentham - Olympian

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

Private George Glew, 11745, 6th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - Ossett Fallen

First World War Army United Kingdom YPRES RESERVOIR CEMETERY

By Anne-Marie Fawcett

United Kingdom

Captain The Hon. Fergus Bowes-Lyon

First World War Army United Kingdom QUARRY CEMETERY, VERMELLES

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