WW1 soldiers' remarkable stories from the frontline for Remembrance Day 2018

Between 1914 and 1918, around 70 million people were mobilised to fight in World War One.

The conflict became a turning point for warfare as soldiers began to truly document the horror of life at the frontline.

Today, we take a look a five soldiers whose remarkable stories from the Great War hammer home the bravery of those who fought.

Flora Sandes: The only British woman to fight on the frontline in WW1

Born and raised in Yorkshire, Flora Sandes was the only British woman to serve on the frontline in WW1 - fighting for the Serbian army.

Sandes, who died in 1956, volunteered for the St John Ambulance when she was 38-years-old and travelled to Serbia, where she enrolled in their army.

The reported tomboy was promoted to the rank of Sergeant-Major but severely wounded by a grenade in 1916. She later received the King George Star by the Serbian government and is still a Serbian national hero.

John Parr: The first British soldier killed during WW1

Private John Henry Parr is believed to be the first British soldier killed during the war.

Born in July 1897 in Finchley, he was just 17-years-old when he died but the circumstances of how he died and who shot him still remain a mystery.

It is believed that he was shot by a German cavalry patrol during a reconnaissance mission on the eve of the Battle of Mons in August, 1914.

George Ellison: The last British soldier to be killed in WW1

Private George Edwin Ellison was the last British soldier to be killed in action in WW1.

Born in York and raised in Leeds, he was shot by a sniper aged 40 while on patrol in woods just outside Mons in Belgium.

He died 90 minutes before the Armistice came into effect at 11am on November 11, 1918 and just six days before his son James' six birthday.

Henry Gunther: The last soldier to die in WW1

Sergeant Henry Gunther was the last soldier killed in WW1. He died on November 11 at 10.59am - just one minute before the ceasefire.

The 23-year-old, from Baltimore, Maryland, charged at a German machine gun nest with his bayonet near Verdun in France.

Despite his friend Sergeant Ernest Powell ordering him to stop, and the German soldiers reportedly trying to wave him away, he continued running at the post and started shooting.

The Germans reportedly only fired back when he was within yards of the post.

Sidney Lewis: The youngest British soldier to fight in WW1

Sidney Lewis was the youngest British soldier to fight in WW1 after he enlisted in August 1915 aged just 12.

Lewis, who was only 13-years-old when he fought at the Somme, was a machine gunner on the Western Front.

A stocky boy standing at 6ft 2inches, he managed to fool commanding officers because of his size, until his mother sent his birth certificate to the War Office demanding he be sent home.

He re-enlisted in 1918 and died in 1969.

Khudadad Khan: The first Muslim soldier to receive the Victoria Cross

Khudadad Khan was the first South Asian person and the first Muslim to receive the Victoria Cross after his small team of machine gunners stalled a German advance long enough to allow for British and German reinforcements to arrive in October 1914.

Two companies of Baluchis, outnumbered and outgunned, bore the brunt of a major German offensive in the First Battle of Ypres.

They kept on firing at the advancing Germans but before long only Khan and one gun remained. Despite suffering several wounds, Khan continued to man the machine gun until he was eventually overrun.

Feigning death the Germans left him and under the cover of darkness he crawled back to his company.

Noel Godfrey Chavasse: The only WW1 soldier to be awarded Victoria Cross twice

Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse is the only person to have been awarded the Victoria Cross twice in WW1, and is still one of only three people to have received it twice.

The Royal Army Medical Corps Captain received his first medal after attending to the wounded all day during the Battle of the Somme while under heavy fire.

His second he received posthumously after he continued to care for the wounded during the Battle of Passchendaele in August 1917, despite being severely injured by shellfire.

He died from his wounds at a Casualty Clearing Station two days later.

Henry Johnson: Soldier of the first ever African American unit of the US army

American soldier Henry Johnson was part of the first ever African American unit of the US Army to fight in the war.

Standing at just 5ft 6inches, the diminutive soldier became famous for single-handedly fighting off a German raid in hand-to-hand combat.

Johnson, who was on night watch with another soldier when the attack happened, was severely injured but managed to save his fellow soldier from the raid.

Succumbing to tuberculosis in 1929, his contribution to his country's war effort was only recognised in 2015 when he was posthumously presented with the Medal of Honor by Barack Obama