Every man remembered: site to keep alive the memory of all those who fell in WW1

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The Royal British Legion is working with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to keep alive the memory of those who fell in the First World War, for future generations. We would like every single man and woman from across the Commonwealth who fell to be individually commemorated by those alive today. This is your chance to take part in a truly historic and incredibly significant act of remembrance.




Every Man Remembered - Home

 

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Yeoman Warder Crawford Butler lays the first of 888,246 ceramic poppies - each one marking a British military death in the First World War - in the dry moat of the Tower of London, as part of an installation 'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' marking the centenary of the First World War. More Britons died on the battlefield in the First World War than any other conflict, including the Second World War. 109,000 British Empire citizens - 107,000 of those being British - were also killed in the conflict, and Britain also suffered more civilian deaths than it suffered even in the Second World War. In total around 1,118,760 British Empire troops were killed. The British Empire fielded over 8.8 million troops in the conflict, with only Russia and Germany fielding more

Yeoman Warder Crawford Butler admires the installation. The last of the 888,246 poppies will be symbolically planted on 11th November.

 

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What about the Crimean War? The Trojan Wars?