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!
Acting Sub Lieutenant Albert Frederick Arthur George Windsor Or Duke Of York , HMS Collingwood
Died 6 February 1952
Lives of the First World War
Acting Captain Stanley Russell Thornbery , Royal Army Service Corps
Died 16 February 1952
Lives of the First World War
Commandant (graded as Staff Lt 3rd Class) William Bromfield Brown , attached to Fifth Army Area
Died 20 February 1952
Lives of the First World War
Private Joseph William Saddington 1610, Leicestershire Regiment
Died 3 March 1952
Lives of the First World War
Temporary Lieutenant Marwood Mintern Munden , Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 8 March 1952
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2nd Lieutenant (Acting Captain) Harry Roberts , Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 11 April 1952
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Hon Richard Stafford Cripps , British Red Cross Society
Died 21 April 1952
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Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert Drage , Herefordshire Regiment
Died 8 May 1952
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Company Serjeant Major Frederick Barter 3902, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 15 May 1952
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Captain Claude Maxwell Pennefather , Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 28 May 1952
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Temporary Captain John MacGregor VC , 2nd Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles
Died 9 June 1952
Lives of the First World War
Acting Sub-Lieutenant Cecil Alexander Laffitte , HMS Marlborough
Died 15 June 1952
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Company Quartermaster Sergeant Horace William Townsend DCM 66631, Machine Gun Corps
Died 17 June 1952
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Captain Laurence Owen Bosworth M.C. , Intelligence Corps
Died 11 July 1952
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Lieutenant Colonel Robert Alexander GREG , The Cheshire Regiment
Died 14 July 1952
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Serjeant John William Ormsby VC 3/1836, Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 20 July 1952
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Major General Walter De Sausmarez Cayley , Staff and Headquarters
Died 21 July 1952
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Corporal Francis Pegahmagabow, M.M. and Two Bars 6846, 1st Battalion, Western Ontario Regiment
Died 5 August 1952
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Private Percival Josiah Berry 22137, Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 18 August 1952
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Gunner Charles Edwin Stone VC 34328, Royal Field Artillery
Died 29 August 1952
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Gunner Albert Victor Roberts Henly 329173, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 12 September 1952
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Doctor Laura Margaret Hope , Scottish Women's Hospital
Died 14 September 1952
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Midshipman Peregrine Robert Dearden , HMS Queen Mary
Died 18 September 1952
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Temporary Lieutenant Colonel Robert Aitken Mudie , Royal Field Artillery
Died 26 October 1952
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Lieutenant Colonel Constantine Trent Champion de Crespigny , Army Medical Corps
Died 27 October 1952
Lives of the First World War
Private Leonard Pollitt DCM 240075, Cheshire Regiment
Died 10 November 1952
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Director Dame Katharine Furse nee Symonds , Women's Royal Naval Service
Died 25 November 1952
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Administrator Cicely Mary Hamilton, nee Hammill , French Red Cross
Died 6 December 1952
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Company Serjeant Major William Thomas Vale 73172, Royal Engineers
Died 10 December 1952
Lives of the First World War
Acting Major Selden Herbert Long , Royal Flying Corps
Died 12 December 1952
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Rangi Te Kahutea Otene, M.M. 16/405, First Maori Pioneer Battalion New Zealand Contingent
Died 13 December 1952
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant James Boyd Mather , Royal Scots Fusiliers
Died 19 December 1952
Lives of the First World War