Second World War

The fighting of the Second World War touched every corner of the globe, on land, on sea and in the air. Today, nearly 600,000 Second World War casualties are commemorated by the CWGC in cemeteries and memorials around the world. Tell us their stories. (Image: © IWM E 17110)

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Corporal John Ferguson Allan 591275, Royal Air Force

Second World War Air Force United Kingdom SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

By Julian Morgan

United Kingdom

Leading Aircraftman Ernest James Nicholls - Biography

Second World War Air Force United Kingdom ST. TUDY CHURCH CEMETERY

United Kingdom

Civilian Reneie May Woods - NAAFI Staff - She fed the Bomber Boys

Second World War Miscellaneous United Kingdom Women at war NORTH KESTEVEN, RURAL DISTRICT

By Sally McGlone

United Kingdom

Ordinary Seaman Donald Constance - Lost at Sea

Second World War Navy United Kingdom Pre-war sportsman/woman PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

United Kingdom

Peace on a Saskatchewan Bay - the brief fearless life of Captain Stewart Musgrave Carter

Second World War Army Canadian GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

Canada

4863596 Private Albert Henry Eustace, 1st Bn Leicestershire Regt K-I-A Normandy 23 August 1944

Second World War Army United Kingdom D-Day and Invasion of Normandy ROCQUES CHURCHYARD

By Graham Norman Albert Eustace

United Kingdom

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