

United Kingdom
More than 1.2 million men and women of the United Kingdom are commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The casualties of the first and second world wars served in just about every theatre of war in both conflicts, on land, on sea and in the air. Tell us their stories.


Lieutenant Richard Graham Addis DSC RNVR of H.M.S. Laforey
By Philip Baldock
United Kingdom

Ordinary Seaman J/23974 William Twort of HMS Bulwark
By Philip Baldock
United Kingdom

Rifleman S/17629 Arthur Lavender of the 2nd Battalion, the Rifle Brigade
By Philip Baldock
United Kingdom

Private Thomas Chapman 4746, 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers
By Gossart Rémi
France

Captain Evelyn Herbert Lightfoot Southwell - Olympian
Searching...