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!
Corporal James MacKenzie 8855, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Died 1 April 1915
Lives of the First World War
First Mate John Alfred Glover 92016, Mercantile Marine, SS Seven Seas
Died 1 April 1915
Lives of the First World War
Company Quartermaster Serjeant Reginald Edwin Southwell 15204, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 1 April 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick Wallace Parsons 10461, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 1 April 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private George Henry Chilcott 19133, Devonshire Regiment
Died 1 April 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lydia William Falconer-Grant , Territorial Force Nursing Service
Died 1 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Gunner John Ernest Peckham 41714, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 1 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Aaron Joseph Priest 11591, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 1 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Christopher Frederick Nicholls 267577, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 1 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Howard Fielding 11847, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 1 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Jackson Pollock 535295, London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 1 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Reginald Lingard Collins 282352, Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 1 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Richard Reginald William Russell SE/9460, Army Veterinary Corps
Died 1 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Trimmer Charles Robert Prioux Manger , Mercantile Marine, H.M.H.S. "Asturias" (Belfast)
Died 1 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Clement Arthur Woodland , North Staffordshire Regiment
Died 1 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel James Thomson Rankin Mitchell, D.S.O. , Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Died 1 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant John Edwin Henshaw Coombes , Border Regiment
Died 1 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Alfred Ernest Cummins 23099, 15th (The King's) Hussars
Died 1 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Frederick Bullock, M.M. 533279, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 1 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Henry Jones 27933, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 1 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Francis George Stuart Warwick 682890, London Regiment
Died 1 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Frank Schofield 202257, Leicestershire Regiment
Died 1 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Frank Septimus Holyer GS/7655, Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 1 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Isaac Rosenberg 22311, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
Died 1 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Ivor Richard Thomas 535106, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 1 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private James William Taplin 242761, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 1 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas James Pottle 533410, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 1 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private William Frederick Sampson D8356, Dragoon Guards
Died 1 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private William McGinn 534806, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 1 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Matron-in-Chief Emma Maud McCarthy, GBE , Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
Died 1 April 1949
Lives of the First World War
Temporary Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class) Reverend Frank Hay Gillingham , Royal Army Chaplain's Department
Died 1 April 1953
Lives of the First World War