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!
Sapper Edward George Harry Stephens 550, Royal Engineers Transport
Died 6 January 1955
Lives of the First World War
Captain Ernest Saville Peck , Cambridgeshire Regiment
Died 16 January 1955
Lives of the First World War
Private George Alexander Chamberlain 64266, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 26 January 1955
Lives of the First World War
Flight Sub Lieutenant Gordon Dymore-Brown , Royal Naval Air Service
Died 30 January 1955
Lives of the First World War
Major Richard Cameron North Palairet , Infantry Brigade
Died 11 February 1955
Lives of the First World War
Chief Skipper Joseph Watt VC , Royal Naval Reserve - HM Drifter Gowanlea
Died 13 February 1955
Lives of the First World War
Acting Lance Bombardier Albert Cripps 2041, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 28 February 1955
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Kenelm Arthur Lister-Kaye , Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force
Died 28 February 1955
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Zilla Mary Scruby , Royal Army Medical Corps/Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps
Died 2 March 1955
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel Cecil Langdon Ellery , Hampshire Regiment
Died 19 March 1955
Lives of the First World War
Staff Sergeant Charles Alfred CLARK 50539 , Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 18 April 1955
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Robert Quigg VC 12/18645, 12th Royal Irish Rifles
Died 14 May 1955
Lives of the First World War
Major General Walter Howarth Greenly , 14th (Light) Division
Died 20 May 1955
Lives of the First World War
Chief Lady Superintendent Lilian Charlotte Barker , Woolwich Arsenal
Died 21 May 1955
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Brigadier General James Forbes Robertson VC , Border Regiment
Died 5 August 1955
Lives of the First World War
Founder and Organiser Millicent Fanny Sutherland-Leveson-Gower nee St. Clair-Erskine , No 9 Red Cross Hospital (Millicent Duchess of Sutherland's Ambulance)
Died 20 August 1955
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Acting Major Alfred Maurice Toye VC , Middlesex Regiment
Died 6 September 1955
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Second Lieutenant Frederick William Palmer VC , Royal Fusiliers
Died 10 September 1955
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Lieutenant Colonel Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees, V.C. , Royal Flying Corps
Died 28 September 1955
Lives of the First World War
Wheeler Robert Hunter Johnson TS-9972, Royal Army Service Corps
Died 19 October 1955
Lives of the First World War
Corporal 2nd Herbert Barratt 41274, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Died 25 October 1955
Lives of the First World War
Corporal John Thomas Davies VC 20765, 11th South Lancashire Regiment
Died 28 October 1955
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Captain Arthur Henry Cobby, D.S.O., D.F.C. and Two bars, GM , Australian Flying Corps
Died 11 November 1955
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Charles Harry Coverdale VC , Manchester Regiment
Died 20 November 1955
Lives of the First World War
Captain Harold Roper Robinson , Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 28 November 1955
Lives of the First World War
Private Herbert William Faulkner 7370, South Wales Borderers
Died 28 November 1955
Lives of the First World War
Captain Harold Adrian Walden , West Yorkshire Regiment
Died 2 December 1955
Lives of the First World War
Private Alexander Murdock Edmistone 91, Machine Gun Corps
Died 18 December 1955
Lives of the First World War
Private Leonard Charles Braund 80848, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 22 December 1955
Lives of the First World War
Gunner William L Knill 168437, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 25 December 1955
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur Claud Phillips 3413, 4th Australian Infantry Brigade
Died 25 December 1955
Lives of the First World War