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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Private Charles Scarth Ballantyne, from Birsay, Orkney

First World War Army United Kingdom DOIRAN MEMORIAL

By Geoffrey Morrison

Canada

Private Herbert Hithcox, 15652, 10th Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom LOOS MEMORIAL

By KATRINA WILCOCK

United Kingdom

Cpl Peter MacFarlane, Cyclist Battalion, 16th Highland Light Infantry

First World War Army United Kingdom THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

United Kingdom

Private Peter Dryburgh Inglis, 1st Scots Guards

First World War Army United Kingdom LE TOURET MEMORIAL

By Peter Dryburgh Easson

United Kingdom

Private George William Short: a letter from the front

First World War Army United Kingdom DUD CORNER CEMETERY, LOOS

By mr Beverley J Pook

United Kingdom

Second Lieutenant Edward Cohen MC, 12th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers

First World War Army United Kingdom YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

Canada

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