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!
Acting Major George Thomas Dorrell VC , Royal Horse Artillery
Died 7 January 1971
Lives of the First World War
Sapper Douglas Reginald Stanley Kennedy 322342, Royal Engineers
Died 8 January 1971
Lives of the First World War
Warrant Officer Class 2 Charles Herbert Moss 3903059, South Wales Borderers
Died 14 January 1971
Lives of the First World War
Captain Arthur Hugh Henry Batten-Pooll VC , Royal Munster Fusiliers
Died 21 January 1971
Lives of the First World War
Surgeon Probationer Richard Erstine Batson , Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Died 25 January 1971
Lives of the First World War
Captain Walter Frank Quantock Shuldham , Rajputs and Rifles
Died 7 February 1971
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant William Territt Greswell , Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry)
Died 12 February 1971
Lives of the First World War
Private Albert Hill VC 15280, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 17 February 1971
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Alexander Broderick , Royal Army Medical Corps Territorial Force
Died 8 March 1971
Lives of the First World War
Subadar Khudadad Khan VC , 129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis
Died 8 March 1971
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel Percival Keith Menzies , Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 2 April 1971
Lives of the First World War
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, D.S.O. and Bar, M.C. , Royal Air Force
Died 22 April 1971
Lives of the First World War
Company Serjeant Major Arthur Charles Early 330019, Hampshire Regiment
Died 29 April 1971
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant William Davidson Bissett VC , Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Died 12 May 1971
Lives of the First World War
Brevet Major Archie Cecil Thomas White VC , Yorkshire Regiment
Died 20 May 1971
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant (Acting Captain) Laurence Robert Dacre Anderson , Royal Field Artillery
Died 20 May 1971
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Commander Norman Wilkinson , Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Died 31 May 1971
Lives of the First World War
Private Peter H Stopforth 35291, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 1 June 1971
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Sir William Lawrence Bragg , Royal Horse Artillery
Died 1 July 1971
Lives of the First World War
Private Albert Halton VC 241475, Royal Lancaster Regiment
Died 24 July 1971
Lives of the First World War
Private Harold Edgar Curzon 79333, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 29 July 1971
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Rifleman Albert Edward Rudge 12308, 1st King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 7 August 1971
Lives of the First World War
Private Septimus Hand 266427, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 12 August 1971
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur Ernest Newham 65401, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 11 September 1971
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Commander Bryan Fullerton Adams D.S.O. , HMS Vindictive - Seamen Storming Party, "A" Company
Died 22 September 1971
Lives of the First World War
Air Vice Marshall Robert Henry Magnus Spencer Saundby , Royal Air Force
Died 26 September 1971
Lives of the First World War
Able Seaman Herbert Christopher Plummer 239031, HMS Dublin
Died 27 September 1971
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur C Barnes DM2/180589, Army Service Corps
Died 16 October 1971
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Reginald Roy Inwood VC 506, 10th Australian Infantry Battalion
Died 23 October 1971
Lives of the First World War
Captain Ralph Bower Ainsworth, M.C. , Durham Light Infantry
Died 26 November 1971
Lives of the First World War
Sister Edith Mary Toft, later Howard , Australian Army Nursing Service
Died 28 November 1971
Lives of the First World War
Private James Bernard Scutter 622253, Canadian Mounted Rifles
Died 30 November 1971
Lives of the First World War