This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I wrote several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers such as those available through Europeana, and also the Imperial War Museum. I'd welcome further suggestions as the harvesting tool and database are easily extendable.
For information, questions and bug reports please contact James Morley @jamesinealing | james@jamesmorley.net
The data has been harvested from providers using some custom php scripts to query respective APIs based on dates. Data is harmonised and stored in a local mySql database.
Additional jQuery plugins are used to enhance the display, including Masonry and Bootstrap Image Gallery (based on blueimp).
The code is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please. It will be shared on Github shortly!
Serjeant Matthew Davidson, MM and Bar 137537, Royal Engineers
Died 17 January 1944
Lives of the First World War
Private Albert Brown 2692, 1/4th South Lancashire Regiment
Died 2 February 1944
Lives of the First World War
Surgeon Mary Hannah Frances Ivens CBE , French Red Cross
Died 6 February 1944
Lives of the First World War
Temporary Captain Angus Buchanan VC , South Wales Borderers
Died 1 March 1944
Lives of the First World War
Director Evelyn Maud Northcote O.B.E nee Walrond , Women's Royal Naval Service
Died 20 March 1944
Lives of the First World War
Private John Clements Bartlett 3/7599, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 16 April 1944
Lives of the First World War
Leading Cook's Mate Harry George Walters M586, HMS Castor
Died 23 April 1944
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Major Harold Franz Passawer Percival , Army Service Corps/ General Headquarters Staff
Died 28 April 1944
Lives of the First World War
Ethel Mary Smyth , British Red Cross Society and Order of Saint John of Jerusalem
Died 8 May 1944
Lives of the First World War
Temporary Lieutenant Colonel John Vaughan Campbell VC , Coldstream Guards
Died 21 May 1944
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Senior Chaplain to the Forces Ernest Sydney Emmitt , Royal Army Chaplain's Department
Died 4 June 1944
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel David Davies , Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 16 June 1944
Lives of the First World War
Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant Launcelot Sherlock Lewis Longueville Graham DCM, MiD 9/465, Otago Mounted Rifles, Permanent Staff
Died 17 June 1944
Lives of the First World War
Warrant Officer Class 2 Edward Brooks VC 201154, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Died 26 June 1944
Lives of the First World War
Major Allan Peter Currie 51715, Highland Light Infantry
Died 27 June 1944
Lives of the First World War
Major General Sir Arthur Binny Scott , 12th (Eastern) Division
Died 2 July 1944
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Arthur John Eldon Marshall 172569, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 9 July 1944
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Sergeant Samuel Cooper 240546 and 2189, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
Died 11 July 1944
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Edmund Bevington 761330, 28th London Regiment
Died 22 July 1944
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur Vickers VC 3719, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1944
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel James Hargest O.B.E., D.S.O. and two BAR, M.C. 9/286, Otago Infanrty Regiment
Died 12 August 1944
Lives of the First World War
Reverend Richard Whincup , Royal Army Chaplain's Department
Died 18 August 1944
Lives of the First World War
Matron-in-Chief Evelyn Augusta Conyers, RRC and Bar , Australian Army Nursing Service
Died 6 September 1944
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Frank Oswald Harris, M.C. , Indian Army Reserve of Officers
Died 15 September 1944
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Bertram Louis Waters 531013, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 23 September 1944
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Joseph Duncan Shilling , Hampshire Regiment
Died 21 October 1944
Lives of the First World War
Air Chief Marshal Trafford Leigh Leigh-Mallory , Royal Air Force
Died 14 November 1944
Lives of the First World War
Private Ralph Shields NX57251, Australian Army Service Corps
Died 21 November 1944
Lives of the First World War
Captain Arthur Edwin Warren , Somerset Light Infantry
Died 26 November 1944
Lives of the First World War
Able Seaman William Polston R/2352, Royal Nobel Volunteer Reserve
Died 7 December 1944
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols , Royal Field Artillery
Died 17 December 1944
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel Baptiste Johnston Barton, DSO , Duke of Wellington’s Regiment
Died 18 December 1944
Lives of the First World War
Commander Nobumasa Suetsugu , Imperial Japanese Navy
Died 29 December 1944
Lives of the First World War