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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Ordinary Seaman Evan William Harris Vaughan, J/65794, RN, HMS Vanguard

First World War Navy United Kingdom CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL

By Jeremy Elsworth

United Kingdom

Lieutenant Mervyn Bruce Grace, 6th Bn., North Staffordshire Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom Pre-war sportsman/woman TEMPLEUX-LE-GUERARD BRITISH CEMETERY

By Jeremy Elsworth

United Kingdom

Lieutenant John Whitworth Davidson, 4th attd. 10th Bn., Sherwood Foresters

First World War Army United Kingdom BRAY MILITARY CEMETERY

By Jeremy Elsworth

United Kingdom

Lance Corporal Michael Forbes, 22725, 2nd Bn., Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

First World War Army United Kingdom ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

By Anita Whelan

United Kingdom

Second Lieutenant Alec Edmund Stuart Hodgson, 3rd Bn., York and Lancaster Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

By Jeremy Elsworth

United Kingdom

Second Lieutenant James Duncan McTavish, 7th Bn., Gordon Highlanders

First World War Army United Kingdom ARRAS MEMORIAL

By Jeremy Elsworth

United Kingdom

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