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 Richard Edward Cooper 16350, Royal Irish Rifles
Died 14 January 1958
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Eric Bertram Crockford 245, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 17 January 1958
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Lieutenant-General Frederick Ivor Maxse , XVIII Corps
Died 28 January 1958
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Sister Edith Elizabeth Appleton , 14 General Hospital
Died 6 February 1958
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Colonel Sir Henry Gilbertson-Smith CB OBE MC TD DL , 25th London Regiment
Died 17 February 1958
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Company Sergeant Major Ernest Reginald Allen 71415, Labour Corps
Died 20 February 1958
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Tom Fletcher Mayson VC 200717, King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment
Died 21 February 1958
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Second Lieutenant Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin , Irish Guards
Died 1 March 1958
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Sapper Leslie Richard Pennyfather 344865, Royal Engineers
Died 10 March 1958
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A.S. Samuel Needham Z/945, Royal Naval Division H.M.S. Dido
Died 23 March 1958
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Lance Corporal Francis Walter White 266196, Royal Lancaster Regiment
Died 28 March 1958
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Captain James Charles Patrick Kinsman , London Regiment
Died 11 April 1958
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Temporary Brigadier General Lionel Evelyn Oswald Charlton , Lancashire Fusiliers Attached Royal Flying Corps
Died 18 April 1958
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Lieutenant James Dalgleish Pollock VC , Cameron Highlanders
Died 10 May 1958
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Private Ronald Charles Colman 2148, 14th London Regiment
Died 19 May 1958
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Private Charles Henry Knill MM 266193, Devonshire Regiment
Died 24 May 1958
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Private Brian Thomas Chaplin , 4th Field Survey Corp Royal Engineers
Died 13 June 1958
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Lance Corporal Harold Sandford Mugford VC 51507, Machine Gun Corps
Died 16 June 1958
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Second Lieutenant Edwin Anscombe Pearse , London Regiment
Died 1 July 1958
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Rifleman William George 55943, New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Died 19 July 1958
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Lieutenant Coningsby William Dawson , 53rd Battery, Canadian Field Artillery
Died 10 August 1958
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Corporal Colin Fraser Barron VC 404017, 3rd (Toronto) Battalion
Died 15 August 1958
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Second Lieutenant William Shadbolt , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 22 August 1958
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Second Lieutenant Ralph Vaughan Williams , Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 26 August 1958
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Lieutenant Rowland Richard Louis Bourke VC , Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Died 29 August 1958
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Second Lieutenant Giffard Le Quesne Martel 6628, Royal Engineers
Died 3 September 1958
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Colonel /Temporary Brigadier General Viscount Hampden , Reserve of Officers/Staff
Died 4 September 1958
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Robert William Service Certificate number 3376, British Red Cross Society and Order of Saint John of Jerusalem
Died 11 September 1958
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Captain Allan Ebenezer Ker VC , Gordon Highlanders
Died 12 September 1958
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Private Matthias Porter , Kings Liverpool Regiment
Died 23 September 1958
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Louisa Margaret Leila Wemyss, Lady Paget , Lady Paget's Unit, Uskub
Died 24 September 1958
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Serjeant Herbert Mitchell 243076, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Died 24 September 1958
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Driver Albert Henry Heaven M/29975, Army Service Corps
Died 3 October 1958
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Major Thomas Thelwall Waddington , Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 26 October 1958
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Captain Edgar Carnegie Anstey , Royal Field Artillery
Died 6 November 1958
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Captain Edgar Carnegie Anstey , Royal Field Artillery
Died 6 November 1958
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Lieutenant Alfred William Clarke , Postal Section Royal Engineers
Died 7 November 1958
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Brevet Colonel Alexander Anderson McHardy , Royal Artillery
Died 11 November 1958
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Lieutenant Colonel (Retd.) Thomas Orde Hans Lees AFC OBE , Royal Marines
Died 1 December 1958
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