Which global conflict, lasting from 1914 to 1918, saw the country lose nearly a million soldiers in the trenches of the Western Front?

• A Second World War
• B First World War ✓
• C Crimean War
• D Boer War

The First World War cost over 886,000 military deaths with about 6 million soldiers mobilised; remembrance is marked annually by a two-minute silence on Armistice Day.