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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Major Reginald “Reggie” Oscar Schwarz

First World War Army United Kingdom Pre-war sportsman/woman ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

Captain Noel Forbes Humphreys

First World War Army United Kingdom Pre-war sportsman/woman ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

Second Lieutenant Fred Leonard Perrett

First World War Army United Kingdom Pre-war sportsman/woman TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE

Captain Reginald Myburgh Hands

First World War Army South African Pre-war sportsman/woman BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY

Lieutenant Euan Lucie-Smith

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

By Alistair Higgins

United Kingdom

Private Herbert Crook; Lost in the Desert

First World War Army United Kingdom BASRA MEMORIAL

United Kingdom

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