

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)


Petty Officer Stoker Horatio Bert James ‘Horace’ Belton, 1815, Royal Australian Navy

Lance Corporal George Edward Carey 128, 503rd Field Coy., Royal Engineers
By Tim Finch
United Kingdom

Naik Sundar Singh 536, 1st Battalion, 76th Punjabis - awarded Indian Order of Merit
By Avtar Bahra
United Kingdom

Private Peter Carley 13083, 10th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
By Dominic Wells
United Kingdom

Private Alexander Chalmers S/19615, 1st/7th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders
By Susan Strang
United Kingdom
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