In pictures: For the Fallen
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Photographer Michael St Maur Sheil has been photographing sites of the Great War for almost a decade. His latest book, For the Fallen, contains pictures of memorials and cemeteries maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC).
The cemetery at Gallipoli, where the Allies lost around 50,000 men, including more than 8,000 Australians and more than 2,700 New Zealanders, overlooks the coast where the ill-fated landings took place.
The Neidpath (Pollock's) Cemetery in Saskatchewan is the final resting place of Canadian soldier Donald Pollock who is buried alongside his twin (who died the same day).
The scarred landscape of the Newfoundland Memorial Park, Beaumont Hamel, part of the Somme battlefield. The battle began on 1 July 1916 and ended in a muddy quagmire in mid-November, the Allies having advanced only five miles (8km). The Newfoundland Regiment, nearly 800 men, was virtually wiped out on the first day.
The Trekkopje Cemetery in Namibia is adjacent to the now abandoned and destroyed Trekkopje train station. The casualties resulted from an attack by a German force on South African railway protection troops on 26 April 1915.
The grave of Alex Bennett, a Private in the British West Indies Regiment, who died on 1 February 1917 can be found in Buff Bay, Jamaica.
The gravestone of D Grant, a deck hand in the Royal Naval Reserve who served on HMS Vernon can be seen at St Finnan's Isle Burial Ground in Inverness-shire, Scotland.
For the Fallen by Peter Francis and Michael St Maur Sheil is published by AA Publishing.