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)

Sergeant Leo Clarke VC

First World War Army Canadian Victoria Cross holder ETRETAT CHURCHYARD

Lance Corporal Fred Fisher VC

First World War Army Canadian Victoria Cross holder Pre-war sportsman/woman YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

Company Sergeant Major Frederick William Hall VC

First World War Army Canadian Victoria Cross holder YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

Private James Clelland Richardson VC

First World War Army Canadian Victoria Cross holder ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY, MIRAUMONT

Sapper Thomas William Heaton, WR/42504, 332nd Road Construction Company, Royal Engineers

First World War Army United Kingdom RADCLIFFE (STAND LANE) NEW CHURCH BURIAL GROUND

United Kingdom

Rifleman Mark Willett, 5673, 1st/21st Bn., London Regiment (1st Surrey Rifles)

First World War Army United Kingdom THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

By Anne McIntyre

United Kingdom

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