A four year project which collected over a million messages of remembrance and over 200k images and unique stories about the fallen people of WW1.

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Every One Remembered

A website to commemorate the fallen 1.1 million of the first world war, by the Royal British Legion.

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the brief

The story of the First World War is the story of people: Ordinary men and women who signed up and gave us extraordinary stories to tell. Stories of bravery, love and sadness, stories of Remembrance.

Every One Remembered aimed to uncover these stories and individually remember all 1.1 million fallen commonwealth service men and women from the First World War.

We were tasked with developing a solution for connecting a database of fallen heroes with a modern audience.

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project requirements

microsite
development
animation

The project

Leveraging a huge database, we had to work out a way to connect the CWGC database with the front end user.

We developed a fully featured responsive site, including the ability to view the thousands of cemeteries and commemorations on a custom map. The site also needed modern web animation to tell the story of the soldiers and the Royal British Legion's ongoing work.

Two years after launch, Toasted Digital's remit was widened on the project and our UX and design expertise were commissioned to further improve the website to drive further commemorations.

Four years after launching, Every One Remembered successfully reached its goal of having all 1.1 million service men and women individually remembered by website users. As well as this, over 200,000 unique images and stories of the people of WW1 were collected, in a truly amazing act of remebrance.

The website was recognised at eConsultancy's The Digitals as the best Charity and Not for Profit project of the year.

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client

The Royal British Legion

The Legion was founded by veterans after the First World War. A century on from the start of that conflict, we're still helping today's Service men and women, veterans, and their families in almost every aspect of daily life. We also champion Remembrance, safeguarding the memory of those who have given their lives for our freedom through Remembrance education and events.

agency

BPL Marketing

BPL managed the project and created the original designs.

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