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!
Major Henry Herbert Stanley Marsh. Unit: 4th London Field Company, 2nd London Divisional Engineers, Royal Engineers (Territorial Force). Death: 02 April 1915 Western Front
Died 2 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant James Nash. Unit: 4th Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. Death: 2 April 1915
Died 2 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Leslie George Glassington 2038. Unit: 56th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 2 April 1916, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 2 April 1916
Imperial War Museum
Trooper Alexander Gibson Forsyth 3109. Unit: 4th Australian Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 2 April 1916, Delhi Military Hospital, Tidworth, Britain.
Died 2 April 1916
Imperial War Museum
Corporal John Francis Bales 40218. Unit: 2nd Battalion, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 02 April 1917 Croisilles Western Front
Died 2 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant H H Richards. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 02 April 1917 Western Front
Died 2 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant H P Sworder. Unit: The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), attached to 57th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 02 April 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 2 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant John Alan Carter. Unit: 6th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Death: 02 April 1917 Missing in action
Died 2 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant William Eustace O’Halloran. Unit: 55th or 56th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 02 April 1917
Died 2 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Ernst Preece 2504. Unit: 56th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 02 April 1917
Died 2 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Frederick Sumner Miller 2697. Unit: 51st Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 02 April 1917 Western Front
Died 2 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Harold Gilmore Hughes 4497. Unit: 50th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 2 April 1917, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 2 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Nathanial James Boon 11067/21266. Unit: Machine Gun Corps, attached to Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Death: 02 April 1917
Died 2 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
'Standing By' - Gaudiempré [recto]
Waiting for the 'buses - Gaudiempré [verso]
2 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Company Sergeant Major Lindsay Moore 1124 DCM. Unit: D Company, 23rd (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 02 April 1918 Missing Western Front
Died 2 April 1918
Imperial War Museum