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!
Lieutenant Gordon Charles Steele VC , HM Submarines, Q Ships, HM CMB No 88
Died 4 January 1981
Lives of the First World War
Major Arnold Horace Santo Waters VC , Royal Engineers
Died 22 January 1981
Lives of the First World War
Private Patrick Joseph Kennedy MM 10826, 18th Manchester Regiment
Died 15 February 1981
Lives of the First World War
Driver Enid Bagnold 373, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Corps
Died 31 March 1981
Lives of the First World War
Private Douglas Victor Evershed 1264, 8th Light Horse Regiment
Died 4 April 1981
Lives of the First World War
Reverend John Kenneth Best , Royal Army Chaplains Department
Died 19 April 1981
Lives of the First World War
Staff Sergeant Leonard Frank Harding 461342, 2/3 Wessex Field Ambulance
Died 13 June 1981
Lives of the First World War
Major Charles Edmund Ryan MC MID , Royal Field Artillery, 67th Brigade
Died 10 August 1981
Lives of the First World War
Mairi Lambert Gooden-Chisholm, MM , British Red Cross Society and Order of Saint John of Jerusalem
Died 22 August 1981
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Alexander Raban Waugh , Machine Gun Corps
Died 3 September 1981
Lives of the First World War
Private Harry George Bailey 25753 0485, Dorsetshire Regiment
Died 17 September 1981
Lives of the First World War
Private Vincent Emanuel Pascual L927, Kimberley Regiment
Died 3 October 1981
Lives of the First World War
Chauffeur Beryl Butterworth Hutchinson , First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
Died 6 November 1981
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Lionel Frederick Heald , 528 Field Company, RE
Died 8 November 1981
Lives of the First World War
Corporal John Nunn, M.M. 26156, 17th New Zealand Pioneer Battalion
Died 13 November 1981
Lives of the First World War
Kitchen Maid Clara Eva Vickery, later Burford , Voluntary Aid Detatchment
Died 23 November 1981
Lives of the First World War