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!
Lieutenant Ronald Tudor Symond , Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force
Died 7 January 1947
Lives of the First World War
Private Bertram Langley 679123, 3rd Division Concert Party
Died 12 January 1947
Lives of the First World War
Corporal William Fair Anderson 290662, 1/7th Royal Highlanders
Died 4 February 1947
Lives of the First World War
Temporary Lieutenant George Bernard Foote , Royal Munster Fusiliers
Died 8 February 1947
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel Hon Francis Stanley Jackson , West Yorkshire Regiment
Died 9 March 1947
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant General John Phillip Du Cane , Royal Artillery
Died 5 April 1947
Lives of the First World War
Nursing Sister Gladys Frances Bliss , Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 23 April 1947
Lives of the First World War
Nursing Sister Blanche Bibby , Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 8 May 1947
Lives of the First World War
Commandant Augusta Mary Monica Crichton-Stuart nee Bellingham, DBE , Mount Stuart Royal Naval Hospital
Died 16 May 1947
Lives of the First World War
Nursing Sister Roberta GOURLAY , Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 16 May 1947
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel Henry George Charles Viscount Lascelles , Yorkshire Hussars
Died 24 May 1947
Lives of the First World War
Acting Warrant Officer Class 1 James Clarke VC 37721, Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 16 June 1947
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Patterson , Royal Fusiliers
Died 18 June 1947
Lives of the First World War
Doctor Lilian Violet Cooper , Scottish Women's Hospitals (French Red Cross).
Died 18 July 1947
Lives of the First World War
Deputy Director Edith Frances Crowdy , Women's Royal Naval Service
Died 23 July 1947
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Arthur Frederick Saunders VC 3/10133, Suffolk Regiment
Died 30 July 1947
Lives of the First World War
Temporary Chaplain Frederick George Goddard , Royal Army Chaplain's Department
Died 21 August 1947
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Albert Edwin Salter , Rifle Brigade
Died 7 September 1947
Lives of the First World War
Alice Frederica Keppel , British Red Cross Society
Died 11 September 1947
Lives of the First World War
Private Theodore Ralph Ingram 14/677, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 September 1947
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Anthony Shaw-Lefevre-St. John -Mildmay , Grenadiers
Died 3 October 1947
Lives of the First World War
Private John William McCullough 408026, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 24 October 1947
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Wilfred Dolby Fuller VC 15624, Grenadier Guards
Died 22 November 1947
Lives of the First World War