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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Rifleman Johnathan George Skipper

First World War Army United Kingdom Post Office THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Captain Lewis Robertson

First World War Army United Kingdom Pre-war sportsman/woman YPRES RESERVOIR CEMETERY

Rifleman William J E Tackley

First World War Army United Kingdom Post Office POST OFFICE RIFLES CEMETERY, FESTUBERT

Lieutenant William “Willie” Middleton Wallace

First World War Air Force United Kingdom Pre-war sportsman/woman CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ

Lieutenant Colonel Richard Williams

First World War Army United Kingdom Pre-war sportsman/woman LOOS MEMORIAL

Second Lieutenant Douglas Lambert - The Hammer of the French

First World War Army United Kingdom Pre-war sportsman/woman LOOS MEMORIAL

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