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)

Battery Serjeant Major Ernest James Horlock VC

First World War Army United Kingdom Victoria Cross holder ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

Second Lieutenant Desmond Maurice Macartney-Filgate, Royal Air Force, 42 Training Squadron

First World War Air Force United Kingdom WYE (SS. GREGORY AND MARTIN) CHURCHYARD

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

Major William Henry Johnston VC

First World War Army United Kingdom Victoria Cross holder PERTH CEMETERY (CHINA WALL)

Second Lieutenant John Croxton Walker, 1st Bn., Cambridgeshire Regiment - 'killed on the Somme...'

First World War Army United Kingdom KNIGHTSBRIDGE CEMETERY, MESNIL-MARTINSART

By Clare Bostle

United Kingdom

Captain Harry Sherwood Ranken VC

First World War Army United Kingdom Victoria Cross holder BRAINE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Lance Corporal Percy William Amos G/2566, 7th Battalion, The Buffs, (East Kent) Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom WYE (SS. GREGORY AND MARTIN) CHURCHYARD

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

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