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!
Gunner Hubert William Boustred 625971, Royal Horse Artillery Honourable Artillery Company
Died 6 January 1949
Lives of the First World War
Captain Richard Bethune Fripp Selwyn Payne , Motor Machine Gun Corps
Died 1 February 1949
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant General Joseph John Asser , Staff Communication Area
Died 4 February 1949
Lives of the First World War
Matron-in-Chief Emma Maud McCarthy, GBE , Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
Died 1 April 1949
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Raymond Smith-Barry , Royal Air Force
Died 23 April 1949
Lives of the First World War
Major General Fabian Arthur Goulstone Ware , Director Grave Registrations and Enquiries
Died 29 April 1949
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Warrent Officer Class 2 Henry Percival Hine 265042, 9th Middlesex Regiment
Died 6 May 1949
Lives of the First World War
Private William James Annis 30280, Worcestershire Regiment
Died 28 May 1949
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Major and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel / Temporary Brigadier General Edmond William Costello, V.C., C.M.G., C.V.O., D.S.O. , 22nd Punjabis, Commanding 12th Indian Infantry Brigade
Died 7 June 1949
Lives of the First World War
Private James Henry Frank Rackett 8/1863, Hampshire Regiment
Died 30 June 1949
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Temporary Staff Serj Frederick William Hine 126, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 5 July 1949
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Private Ernest Sykes VC 40989, Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 3 August 1949
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Staff Serjeant James Upton VC 10082, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 10 August 1949
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Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Colonel /Temporary Brigadier General The Honourable John Francis Gathorne-Hardy, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. , Grenadier Guards
Died 21 August 1949
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Joiner 4th class Albert Foreman Cox M18605, HMS Bellerophon
Died 28 August 1949
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Brevet Colonel Walter Mervyn St George Kirke , Military Operations Directorate
Died 2 September 1949
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Lieutenant Leonard Charles Dashfield , Lincolnshire Regiment
Died 24 September 1949
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Sister Catherine Black, RRC MVO MBE , Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
Died 7 October 1949
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Leading Stoker Godfrey James Lockard 3123, HMAS Australia
Died 15 October 1949
Lives of the First World War
Major Osbert Cautley Mordaunt , Somerset Light Infantry
Died 20 October 1949
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Lance Corporal Herbert Stevens M2/047782, Army Service Corp
Died 31 October 1949
Lives of the First World War
Captain Leslie Hewitt Gay , The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
Died 1 November 1949
Lives of the First World War