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!
Subedar Mir Dast VC , 55th Coke's Rifles (Frontier Force)
Died 19 January 1945
Lives of the First World War
General Sir Archibald James Murray, K.C.B., G.C.M.G., C.V.O, D.S.O. , Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Died 21 January 1945
Lives of the First World War
Nursing Sister Beatrice Eugene Bradshaw , Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 3 February 1945
Lives of the First World War
Colonel /Temporary Major General Henry Edward Burstall , Canadian Forces Staff
Died 8 February 1945
Lives of the First World War
Corporal William Gosling VC 645112, Royal Field Artillery
Died 12 February 1945
Lives of the First World War
Private George Mann PLY/14420, Royal Marine Light Infantry: Plymouth Division
Died 19 February 1945
Lives of the First World War
Sapper Patrick Joseph Barclay WR/202573, Royal Engineers
Died 3 March 1945
Lives of the First World War
Captain/Temporary Major Thomas Melville Dill , Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 7 March 1945
Lives of the First World War
Colonel George Kemp, Lord Rochdale , Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 24 March 1945
Lives of the First World War
Captain Arthur Andrew Cipriani , British West Indies Regiment
Died 18 April 1945
Lives of the First World War
Private Alfred Frank Ridgers 15276, Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 28 April 1945
Lives of the First World War
Surgeon Major and Honorary Surgeon Lieutenant Colonel Roger Bullock , Warwickshire Yeomanry
Died 9 June 1945
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Henry Sage VC 33316, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 20 July 1945
Lives of the First World War
Able Seaman Frederick James Larby J/27317, HMS Vindictive - Seamen Storming Party, "A" Company
Died 7 August 1945
Lives of the First World War
Sister Ethel Kate Thompson M.M. , Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Families Nursing Service
Died 8 September 1945
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Thomas Seymour Rowsell , Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 29 September 1945
Lives of the First World War
Private George Polston 13713, Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 10 October 1945
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Thomas Bryan VC 22040, Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 13 October 1945
Lives of the First World War
Captain Frederick Laurence Field , HMS King George V
Died 24 October 1945
Lives of the First World War
Admiral Edwyn Sinclair Alexander Sinclair Of Freswick ,
Died 13 November 1945
Lives of the First World War
Administrator Alwyne Edward Maude , French Red Cross
Died 1 December 1945
Lives of the First World War
Major Maurice Baring , Intelligence Officer Attached Head Quarters Royal Flying Corps
Died 14 December 1945
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Vere Norman Rowsell, M.C. , Coldstream Guards
Died 15 December 1945
Lives of the First World War