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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COMPANY QUARTERMASTER SERJEANT EDGAR CHARLES PURSE, 8911, 1st Bn Devonshire Regiment (1891 - 1918)

First World War Army United Kingdom MORBECQUE BRITISH CEMETERY

United Kingdom

Cpl John Sumner - 7th Rifle Brigade

First World War Army United Kingdom SANCTUARY WOOD CEMETERY

By Alison Barnes

United Kingdom

Rifleman Thomas Elliott, King's Royal Rifle Corps

First World War Army United Kingdom HARTLEY WESPALL (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD

By Alison Barnes

United Kingdom

Major Cedric Charles Dickens - Grandson of the author Charles Dickens

First World War Army United Kingdom Art and Literature THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

United Kingdom

Captain Hon George Henry Lyon Playfair, Royal Field Artillery

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

By Alison Barnes

United Kingdom

Lieutenant Ronald Henry Preuss Arnholz - Hertfordshire Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY, MIRAUMONT

By Poppy Mercier

France

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