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!
Second Lieutenant Brian Gwynne Horrocks, M.C. , 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
Died 4 January 1985
Lives of the First World War
Munitions Worker Caroline Rennles nee Webb , Woolwich Arsenal
Died 26 February 1985
Lives of the First World War
Private Herbert G Lawrence M/332251, Army Service Corps
Died 9 March 1985
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Walter James Hollinshead M1/5668, Army Service Corps
Died 22 March 1985
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Sydney Theodore Jerome , Royal Fusilier
Died 27 May 1985
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Percy George Herbert Fender , Royal Fusiliers
Died 15 June 1985
Lives of the First World War
Captain Thomas Edward OSMOND , Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 30 June 1985
Lives of the First World War
Private Frank Leonard Williams 42889, Leicestershire Regiment
Died 2 July 1985
Lives of the First World War
Assistant Surgeon Elizabeth Isabel Hamilton-Browne , Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 22 July 1985
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Edward Cooper VC , King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 4 August 1985
Lives of the First World War
Kathleen Ruth L'Estrange Hewetson , Voluntary Aid Detachment VAD
Died 27 October 1985
Lives of the First World War
Staff Nurse Pearl Elizabeth Corkhill , Attached Royal Army Medical Corps Australian Army Nursing Service
Died 4 December 1985
Lives of the First World War