The young teenager from Cornwall who fooled the army into allowing him to fight for his country. The nurse who left her hometown for the first time to help wounded soldiers on faraway battlefields. The ambitious surgeon who pioneered a new form medicine. The poet who captured the horror and despair of his fellow soldiers. The Muslim man who became the first Indian to win a Victoria Cross for bravery…
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