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 John James Simpson, Manchester man killed at Hill 60 Ypres

First World War Army United Kingdom SPOILBANK CEMETERY

By Frank Simpson

United Kingdom

Sapper Daniel Irvine, Signal Company, Royal Engineers, 52nd Lowland Division, Died, 3 November 1915.

First World War Army United Kingdom Post Office ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY) MILITARY AND WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

United Kingdom

Captain John Wilson Lawson, 42nd Bn. Machine Gun Corps. Killed in action, 24th March 1918.

First World War Army United Kingdom DOUCHY-LES-AYETTE BRITISH CEMETERY

United Kingdom

Lieutenant William Galbraith King, 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers. Killed 6th July 1916.

First World War Army United Kingdom PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE

United Kingdom

Private Henry Sproule Wishart, 1060 (1889 - 1918)

First World War Army Australian DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION NO.1

By Scott Wishart

United Kingdom

Second Lieutenant Curwen Vaughan Rawlinson, Dorsetshire Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom RENINGHELST CHURCHYARD EXTENSION

By Alison Barnes

United Kingdom

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