

United Kingdom
More than 1.2 million men and women of the United Kingdom are commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The casualties of the first and second world wars served in just about every theatre of war in both conflicts, on land, on sea and in the air. Tell us their stories.


27122 Private William Friendship 7th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry
By Ian Paul Barber
United Kingdom

9410 Rifleman Cyril Thomas Hugh Myddelton 1st/5th Battalion London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade)
By Ian Paul Barber
United Kingdom

9765 Private Harold Ernest Gallop 7th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry
By Ian Paul Barber
United Kingdom
Leading Wren Laura Beatrice Bessant C/10036, W.R.N.S., HMS Minos
By Philip Baldock
United Kingdom

Able Seaman Gordon Kenneth Seth Bennett S/JX31357, HMS President III (MV Ashanti)
By Philip Baldock
United Kingdom
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