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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Second Lieutenant Victor Louis Snelson, Welsh Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom FINS NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, SOREL-LE-GRAND

By Jeremy Elsworth

United Kingdom

Lieutenant George S.L.S. Williams, 6th attd. 25th Bn., Royal Welsh Fusiliers

First World War Army United Kingdom STE. EMILIE VALLEY CEMETERY, VILLERS-FAUCON

By CHRIS SEAGER

United Kingdom

Air Mechanic (2nd Class) William Arthur Wilmot RNAS

First World War Navy United Kingdom STRETFORD CEMETERY

By Jeremy Elsworth

United Kingdom

Lance Corporal Albert Arthur Steer, 1st Bn., Royal Fusiliers - 'Boy soldier - served to the final days of the war'

First World War Army United Kingdom CROSS ROADS CEMETERY, FONTAINE-AU-BOIS

By Mike Dawson (1)

United Kingdom

Lieutenant Otto Bertel Krenchel MC DCM, 13th Bn., Canadian Infantry - 'of Denmark'

First World War Army Non-Commonwealth DOMINION CEMETERY, HENDECOURT-LES-CAGNICOURT

By Jørgen Flintholm

Denmark

Private John William Dovaston, 19723, King's Shropshire Light Infantry

First World War Army United Kingdom SHREWSBURY GENERAL CEMETERY

By Jeremy Elsworth

United Kingdom

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