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Key information and statistics about countries who fought as part of the British Empire during the First World War

Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Sophie were assassinated in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo. This was a key event in sparking the Great War of 1914–18.

Facts and statistics about New Zealand during the First World War.

News of the outbreak of war was received in Wellington at 1 p.m. on 5 August 1914. It was announced by the governor, Lord Liverpool, on the steps of Parliament to a crowd of 15,000 people. There was popular enthusiasm for the war in Europe, and New Zealanders caught the mood.

Key information and statistics about the Commonwealth of Australia during the First World War

The war had a major impact on constitutional arrangements within the British Empire, and it affected New Zealand's international status.

New Zealand played a small but useful part in the British Empire's war effort, and its essential war aim was achieved with the defeat of Germany and its allies in late 1918. New Zealand's security, both physical and economic, was ensured by the victory.

Key information and statistics about Canada during the First World War

Facts and statistics about India during the First World War

Key information and statistics about the Dominion of Newfoundland during the First World War

Facts and stats about South Africa and the First World War.

Key information and statistics about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland during the First World War

Men of the 16th Infantry Battalion (Canadian Scottish) moving up to the front line near Inchy in northern France during the crossing of the Canal du Nord by the Canadian Corps, 27 September 1918.

A South African nurse places a wreath on the grave of her brother, Private D.B.H. Fynn of the 3rd South African Infantry Regiment, at Delville Wood, 17 February 1918.

Indian cavalry of the 9th Hodson's Horse pause to consult a map near Vraignes in northern France, April 1917.

Indian VCOs and other ranks of the 129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis take aim in trenches on the outskirts of Wytschaete in Belgium, October 1914.

In one of C.R.W. Nevinson's most famous paintings, 'Paths of Glory', we see the bodies of two dead British soldiers behind the Western Front.