Unending Vigil

One million, one hundred thousand men and women lost their lives in the service of the British Empire during the First World War; in the Second, another six hundred thousand from all parts of the Commonwealth made the same sacrifice.

The First World War, which began as a war between professional armies, was very soon to be fought by millions of ordinary citizens turned soldier.

Those who died could no longer be shovelled into a hole ...and so forgotten" as had happened