The British government agency Her Majesty's Court and Tribunal Service recently went live with a searchable database built from 278,000 scanned and digitized World War I soldier wills.

The Princess Royal paid her respects to two unidentified World War I soldiers who were buried in a cemetery in Loos-en-Gohelle today. Gun salutes sounded out as the two brave British soldiers ...

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Across Britain, it is estimated that almost 900,000 British soldiers died in the conflict, and another 1.7 million were wounded. Today, it is clear that the First World War had an immense impact ...

was that he and the many thousands of other underage soldiers — van Emden has calculated that around 250,000 enlisted in the British Army during World War I — did make a difference.