

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)


Private William MacGillivray 1490, "F" Coy. 4th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
By Susan Strang
United Kingdom

Second Lieutenant Samuel McDonald, 7th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
By Susan Strang
United Kingdom

Private Frederick Charles Hopkins 16637, 12th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment
By Tim Finch
United Kingdom

Corporal Frederick Chamberlain 200540, 4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment
By Tim Finch
United Kingdom

Private William Sparkes 79511, 2nd Bn., The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) - 'For His Country...'
By Linda Janssen
Australia
Searching...