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)

Trooper Hugh John Stewart, 214, 2nd Australian Light Horse

First World War Army Australian PIETA MILITARY CEMETERY

Private Frederick Walter Thomas William Tickner PO/18066, 4th R.M. Bn., Royal Marine Light Infantry

First World War Navy United Kingdom DOVER (ST. JAMES'S) CEMETERY

By Philip Baldock

United Kingdom

Lieutenant Edward Addy, Australian Infantry, A.I.F., 9th Battalion

First World War Army Australian PIETA MILITARY CEMETERY

Staff Nurse Frances Ethel Brace, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service

First World War Army United Kingdom Women at war PIETA MILITARY CEMETERY

Private Ngore William Mangaroa, 16/400, New Zealand Maori (Pioneer) Battalion

First World War Army New Zealand PIETA MILITARY CEMETERY

Brigadier General George Benjamin Hodson, General Staff, Commanding 33rd Inf. Bde. Indian Army

First World War Army United Kingdom PIETA MILITARY CEMETERY

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