Memorials & Rolls of Honour

Of more than 600 Victoria Crosses awarded to British and Empire servicemen during the First World War, nineteen were awarded to airmen of the newly...

When 25-year old Private Johnson Beharry won the Victoria Cross in 2005 for bravery under fire in Iraq, he was the first person to win Britain's hi...

At the end of 1917, after three years of trench warfare on the Western Front, the Allied armies of Britain and France, and those of their main oppo...

The Clare War Dead is a comprehensive record of those men from County Clare who died during the Great War, and is the next instalment in this proli...

The landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April 1915 represented the greatest amphibious operation carried out during the course of the First W...

Carshalton in Surrey was deeply affected by the First World War: over 1,900 local men enlisted to fight. Of those men, 243 lost their lives and are...

During the opening four months of the First World War no fewer than forty-six soldiers from the British and Commonwealth armies were awarded the Vi...

Towards the end of September 1918 the Allied armies were poised to seize the Hindenburg Line the end of the war on the Western Front was at last i...

Following on from the success of the War Dead series in counties Tipperary, Wexford, Wicklow ,and Offaly, Tom Burnell now turns his attention to Co...

The years since the Armistice in 1918 have undoubtedly proved that the cemeteries of the First World War have admirably fulfilled their tragic and ...