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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Mess Room Boy Frederick William Barrow, aged 16, Mercantile Marine

First World War Merchant Navy United Kingdom TOWER HILL MEMORIAL

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

Private Cecil Baker, G441, of the 7th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom CITE BONJEAN MILITARY CEMETERY, ARMENTIERES

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

Lieutenant Lionel Cole Whitefoord, 1st Bn Irish Guards attached Machine Gun Corps

First World War Army United Kingdom THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

Private Robert Leslie West, 241177, 5th Battalion, the Royal Sussex Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom CROWHURST (ST. GEORGE) CHURCHYARD, SUSSEX

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

Private Arthur Yapp, 20096, 7th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers

First World War Army United Kingdom HYSSINGTON (ST. ETHELDREDA) CHURCHYARD

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

Lieutenant Robert Thomas Sailman, 85th Bn. – 'Canadian hero died at Passchendaele'

First World War Army Canadian YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

United Kingdom

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