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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Tom Kelk - Fought, Died and Commemorated as Private John Foy... An Underaged British Soldier

First World War Army Canadian BOUCHOIR NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

United Kingdom

Pte Joseph Ward, 21046 - One of Three Brothers

First World War Army United Kingdom THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

By Adelle Glover

United Kingdom

Private Robson Wishart, 58887 (1898 - 1918)

First World War Army United Kingdom LOWRIE CEMETERY, HAVRINCOURT

By Scott Wishart

United Kingdom

Serjeant John Francis Highmoor - Loss of a Great-uncle (by marriage), and a letter...

First World War Army United Kingdom ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY, MIRAUMONT

By MALCOLM PEEL

United Kingdom

Rifleman Sydney Herbert Lightfoot - One of The Lightfoot Brothers

First World War Army United Kingdom THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

United Kingdom

Lieutenant Ernest Blackburn - One of the Blackburn Brothers.

First World War Army United Kingdom THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

United Kingdom

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