Mike, The things I found were typically 1 image per record. I don't see a reason why multiple images per record would not be possible. However, my feeling is you would uniquely identify each image to the proper serviceman and context.
In my opinion you would have up to 12 fields per serviceman info and a link to uniquely identified images. That would allow multiple images per serviceman, but each image in context.
John Doe,grave
John Doe,local memorial
....
However, if you wanted to randomly show the images for a serviceman, I think that is also possible. You could have a folder identified by serviceman, and within the folder a series of images.( not uniquely identified as to settiing-- gravesite,memorial, father, mother etc). Then on presentation, you would select the corresponding folder, then present each of the related images in some sort of for each image in this folder display the image for x seconds..
Just a couple of thoughts.
You could test out a few options by taking a few images of one or 2 servicemen, and setting up a prototype of what you want. If you want to uniquely identify every image or whether identifying the serviceman only (not the specific setting[grave],[mother] etc) I think that is your basic decision/test at the moment.
On the limited testing/developing I have done with images (Acc20003 XP), I used the materials at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;285820
Good luck on your interesting project.