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!
Nursing Sister Helen Janet WOOLSON , Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 10 January 1973
Lives of the First World War
Acting Serjeant Instructor Harold Corble 800478, London Regiment
Died 21 January 1973
Lives of the First World War
Acting Corporal Arthur Herbert Procter VC 200996, The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Died 27 January 1973
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick Brewer 59707, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 1 March 1973
Lives of the First World War
Assistant Provost Marshal Thomas Stewart Lonsdale F/906, 2nd Division
Died 17 March 1973
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant George Melville Cooper , 3rd Seaforth Highlanders
Died 29 March 1973
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant James Ulick Francis Canning Alexander OBE , Coldstream Guards
Died 4 April 1973
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Warren Hamilton Lewis , Army Service Corps
Died 9 April 1973
Lives of the First World War
Major Francis Albert Eley Crew , Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 26 May 1973
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Fred Greaves, VC 23715, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 11 June 1973
Lives of the First World War
Corporal John Brown Hamilton VC 331958, Highland Light Infantry
Died 18 July 1973
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Jack Morrison Gregory 18869, Field Artillery Reinforcements
Died 7 August 1973
Lives of the First World War
Temporary Lieutenant Colonel Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt , Royal Irish Rifles/ Royal Flying Corps
Died 15 August 1973
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant John Ronald Reuel Tolkien , Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 2 September 1973
Lives of the First World War
Air Vice Marshal Thomas Cathcart Traill CB OBE DFC ,
Died 1 October 1973
Lives of the First World War
Private Sidney Arthur Porter 330547, Hampshire Regiment
Died 1 October 1973
Lives of the First World War
Orderley Millicent Sylvia Armstrong , Scottish Womens Hospitals
Died 18 November 1973
Lives of the First World War
Captain Michael Conder Harewell Smith-Carington , 102nd Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Died 19 November 1973
Lives of the First World War
Acting Lieutenant Colonel Robert Alexander Wolfe-Murray, D.S.O. M.C , Gordon Highlanders
Died 22 November 1973
Lives of the First World War
Private David Benjamin Gurion J/5770, Royal Fusiliers
Died 1 December 1973
Lives of the First World War
May Wedderburn Cannan , Personel Mission Anglaise Paris
Died 11 December 1973
Lives of the First World War