

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.


Private Thomas Burke 316299, 23rd Battalion Cheshire Regiment
By Dominic Wells
United Kingdom

Corporal Clifford Desmond Harvey Hasted, 5190766, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, 2nd Airborne Bn.

Private Gruffydd Meirion Jones, 10588886, Royal Army Ordnance Corps and No.3 Commando

Captain Edward Philip May, MC, 158899, Rifle Brigade 8th (2nd Bn. The London Rifle Brigade) Bn.

Signalman Percy Henry Brooke, P/JX 138253, Royal Navy H.M.S. Esk
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