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!
Sergeant Ernest George Shepherd 34325, Royal Field Artillery
Died 5 January 1956
Lives of the First World War
Captain Henry Percy Harpur , Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 8 January 1956
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Reginald Lambert Oates , East Surrey Regiment
Died 10 January 1956
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Transport Warrant Officer Class 1 Douglas Bevington 29869, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 10 January 1956
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Acting Warrant Officer Class 2 John McAulay VC 10053, Scots Guards
Died 14 January 1956
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Gunner Daniel Godfrey Larter 7314, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 28 January 1956
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Private Thomas Alfred Jones VC 11000, Cheshire Regiment
Died 30 January 1956
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Private Thomas Alfred Jones VC DCM 11000, Cheshire Regiment
Died 30 January 1956
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Captain Alan Alexander Milne , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 31 January 1956
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Second Lieutenant Gabriel George Coury VC , The South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
Died 2 February 1956
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Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague Trenchard , Royal Air Force
Died 10 February 1956
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Private Douglas Frederick Flaxman 81855, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 20 February 1956
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Private Patrick Joseph Barrett 10536, Royal Irish Regiment
Died 25 February 1956
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Lieutenant Edward Cecil Doudney , 1/4th Bn Leicestershire Regiment
Died 1 March 1956
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Captain Rev. Arthur Herbert Gray , Royal Army Chaplains Department
Died 9 March 1956
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Reverend George John Bunce Bidgood , Royal Army Chaplains Department
Died 16 March 1956
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Captain and Brevet Major John Alexander Sinton VC , Indian Medical Service
Died 25 March 1956
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Lieutenant Humphrey Seymour Ramsay Critchley-Salmonson , 1st Scottish Rifles
Died 24 April 1956
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Driver Harold John Reed 203417, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 22 May 1956
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Nursing Sister Cora Peters ARCHIBALD , Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 16 June 1956
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Nursing Sister Marjorie Beacom AITKEN , Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 28 June 1956
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Edwin Leonard Gill , British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem
Died 5 July 1956
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Major General Colin John MacKenzie , 61st (South Midland) Division
Died 7 July 1956
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Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Francis Newcombe, RE, DSO , Royal Engineers Railway Company
Died 18 July 1956
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Private Arthur Poulter VC 24066, West Riding Regiment
Died 29 August 1956
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Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Gavin Maitland Makgill Crichton , Cameron Highlanders 9th Division
Died 5 September 1956
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President Florence Edith Victoria Leach nee Way , Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps
Died 5 September 1956
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Lieutenant Commander George Noel Gilbertson DSO RN ,
Died 11 September 1956
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Lieutenant William Avery Bishop VC , Canadian Expeditionary Force
Died 11 September 1956
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Second Lieutenant Alex Birkmire , 6th Welsh Regiment
Died 12 September 1956
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Lieutenant Clarence Richard Goss , Grenadier Guards
Died 14 September 1956
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Captain Hugh Gilchrist Bell , Signal Service Indian Army
Died 20 September 1956
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Lieutenant (Hon. Captain) Alexander Agar Ferguson PI 39212, Royal Air Force
Died 22 September 1956
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Rifleman Kulbir Thapa VC 2129, Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles
Died 3 October 1956
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Corporal William John Sydney Simpson, MC 580, 9th London Regiment, Queen Victorias Rifles
Died 3 November 1956
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Captain John Fritz Kivas Dobbs , Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Died 6 November 1956
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Nursing Sister Bessie Irving Watson , Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 12 November 1956
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Sergeant Major Flora Sandes-Yudenitch , Serbian Army
Died 24 November 1956
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Lewis Edward Best PI 40556, Royal Air Force
Died 8 December 1956
Lives of the First World War