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)

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Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Vivian Thompson, HMS Goliath, Royal Navy

First World War Army United Kingdom DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY, ETRUN

By Bill Caudwell

United Kingdom

Lance Corporal William George Cottle 5600, 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment

First World War Army United Kingdom BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY

By Noonans Mayfair

United Kingdom

Corporal William John Muxworthy 34633, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

First World War Army United Kingdom HYTHE (SPRING LANE) CEMETERY

By Bill Caudwell

United Kingdom

Commander Walter Sterndale Bennett DSO*, Drake Bn. R.N. Div., Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

First World War Navy United Kingdom DOZINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY

By Bill Caudwell

United Kingdom

Captain Thomas Lawrie Shelford. Went down with his ship

First World War Navy United Kingdom CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL

By Bill Caudwell

United Kingdom

Master Nathaniel Joseph English, 'Fenay Lodge', Mercantile Marine

First World War Merchant Navy United Kingdom TOWER HILL MEMORIAL

By Bill Caudwell

United Kingdom

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