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)

Private Thomas Chapman 4746, 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers

First World War Army United Kingdom THIEPVAL ANGLO-FRENCH CEMETERY

By Gossart Rémi

France

Captain Evelyn Herbert Lightfoot Southwell - Olympian

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

Captain John Robert Somers-Smith - Olympian

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

Second Lieutenant Claude Murray Ross - Olympian

First World War Air Force Australian Pre-war sportsman/woman ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL

Rifleman Frederick William Foster, S/20317, 1st Bn., Rifle Brigade

First World War Army United Kingdom THIEPVAL ANGLO-FRENCH CEMETERY

By Gossart Rémi

France

Private John William Linder, L/860, 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers

First World War Army United Kingdom ELOUGES COMMUNAL CEMETERY

United Kingdom

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