Book of Military Obituaries

In the 17 years since The Daily Telegraph started to take its obituaries seriously by allotting them a special section in the paper, it has published around 1,000 obituaries of soldiers, as well as almost equal numbers of sailors and airmen. The 100 to be found here, which have never before been collected in book form, were chosen to show the widest range of military experience.

They include those who performed astonishing acts of bravery, such as the New Zealander Charles Upham, who won the …