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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Lance Sergeant John Russell Wishart, 40669 (1882 - 1917)

First World War Army United Kingdom VILLERS-FAUCON COMMUNAL CEMETERY

By Scott Wishart

United Kingdom

Private Albert Wishart, 267906 (1898 - 1917)

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

By Scott Wishart

United Kingdom

Private Robert Wishart, 24767 (1887 - 1917)

First World War Army United Kingdom TYNE COT CEMETERY

By Scott Wishart

United Kingdom

Private William Robertson Hamilton, 7th Battalion (1st British Columbia) Regiment). KIA 24 April 1915.

First World War Army Canadian YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

United Kingdom

Sergeant Frank Commons, Killed in Action 1917, Queen's (Royal West Kent) and formerly Sherwood Foresters Regiments

First World War Army United Kingdom POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

By Natasha Whitmore

United Kingdom

Sergeant (C.S.M.) Peter McEwan Halley, Black Watch, attached Gordon Highlanders. KIA, 17 June 1917

First World War Army United Kingdom ARRAS MEMORIAL

United Kingdom

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