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!
Captain Reginald Frederick Johnson Hayward VC , Wiltshire Regiment
Died 17 January 1978
Lives of the First World War
Hon Lieutenant-Colonel Josephine Letitia Denny Fairfield , Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 1 February 1978
Lives of the First World War
Lance-Corporal Henry Devenish Skinner DCM, MiD, CBE 8/1837,
Died 9 February 1978
Lives of the First World War
Captain Leslie Phillips Marshall , West Yorkshire Regiment
Died 28 February 1978
Lives of the First World War
Private Herbert Charles Bevis 44635, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 6 March 1978
Lives of the First World War
Private George Frederick Shilling 267078, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 15 March 1978
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Henry A C Browning 77175, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 23 March 1978
Lives of the First World War
Matron Anna Violetta Thurstan , Scottish Women's Hospitals [British Committee, French Red Cross]
Died 13 April 1978
Lives of the First World War
Private Archibald Simeon Quick 27621, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 19 April 1978
Lives of the First World War
Elizabeth Blackall Knocker now Baroness de T'Serclaes , British Red Cross Society
Died 26 April 1978
Lives of the First World War
Surgeon Probationer Richard Sydney Allison , HMS ACORN
Died 27 April 1978
Lives of the First World War
Private Edward Basil Driver Ball 28210, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 16 May 1978
Lives of the First World War
Sergeant Clarence Aldbrough Brise Johnson 90715, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 24 May 1978
Lives of the First World War
Vera Deakin White , Australian Red Cross, Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau
Died 9 August 1978
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Christopher Grieve 64020, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 9 September 1978
Lives of the First World War
Wallace Drury, M.M. 1000303, Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Died 21 September 1978
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick Ancel Carne 524511, Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 30 September 1978
Lives of the First World War
Sergeant Frank Burford T3/023284, Royal Army Service Corps
Died 17 October 1978
Lives of the First World War
Coulson Norman Mitchell VC 596, 2nd Division Signal Company
Died 17 November 1978
Lives of the First World War
Private Robert Edward Ryder VC G/3281, Middlesex Regiment
Died 1 December 1978
Lives of the First World War