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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Albert George McNair, Regular soldier who died aged 19

First World War Army United Kingdom RUE-DAVID MILITARY CEMETERY, FLEURBAIX

By Linda Crawford

United Kingdom

Lance Corporal James Nisbet - An Eastern Star

First World War Army United Kingdom DADIZEELE NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

By Glen Cruickshanks

United Kingdom

Private Charles Gilbert Bowyer - Cambridgeshire Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom GORRE BRITISH AND INDIAN CEMETERY

By harper Jackson

United Kingdom

Private Robert Cocker Rowland Biggin, York and Lancaster Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

By Sally Jowitt

United Kingdom

Private Thomas David Williams - RAMC

First World War Army United Kingdom CARNOY MILITARY CEMETERY

United Kingdom

Stoker 1st Class Edmund Herbert Greenway - No Grave But The Sea

First World War Navy United Kingdom PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

By Mike Chapman

United Kingdom

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