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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Air Mechanic 1st Class Arthur Evan Thomas - Died 11th April 1919

First World War Air Force United Kingdom CHELMSFORD (WRITTLE ROAD) CEMETERY

By Alison Barnes

United Kingdom

Private Robert Gladstone McIntosh - Serving in same platoon as his future brother-in-law

First World War Army Canadian CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ

By Angus Ross Campbell

Canada

Private J Hodgson - Sixty days of hell

First World War Army United Kingdom VILLE-SUR-ANCRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

By Peter Hodgson

United Kingdom

Private Thomas Edwin Bulmer - The Hospital Gardener

First World War Army United Kingdom BRONFAY FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, BRAY-SUR-SOMME

By Andy Cundell

United Kingdom

Private William Sidney Francis Poole 1898 - 1917 Honourable Artillery Company

First World War Army United Kingdom BUTTES NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, POLYGON WOOD

By Alison Barnes

United Kingdom

Private Walter Rowley Thomas - Just a boy from Barton Hill

First World War Army United Kingdom THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

United Kingdom

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