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NOT FORGOTTEN Four WW1 Biographies As part of a project to provide a WW1 history presentation to secondary school pupils, on the war and the soldiers who fought, I have acquired the three most common medals of WW1, ( A 1914-15 star, A British War Medal and a Victory Medal, known to old soldiers as "Pip, Squeak & Wilfred"). These are campaign medals and were awarded to soldiers who served at various times during the war, whether they lived or died. I also have the memorial plaque sent to the family of one who was killed. Over the next few months it is my intention to fully research these four soldiers and put the results on this page. The sad line of immaculately kept war cemeteries which mark the course of the war on the Western Front sometimes give the idea that almost all who served died. In fact about 1 in 10 servicemen paid the ultimate price during WW1. Just over 7 million men from Great Britain and Ireland served in WW1 and just over 704,000 died during the war. In the Army the bulk of casualties were sustained among the Infantry and Royal Artillery. Soldiers from a Fusiliers Regt at a training camp - Each has his own story waiting to be told.
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