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!
Private Alfred Noble 1201. Unit: 9th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 02 August 1915 Died of wounds Gallipoli/Dardanelles
Died 2 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Percival Powell. Unit: 9th Battalion, attached to 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Death: 02 August 1915 Western Front
Died 2 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Arthur Bruce Stead 11781. Unit: A Company, 9th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment). Death: 02 August 1916 Wounded and missing last seen leading a stretcher party to the trenches. Western Front
Died 2 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private John Robert Milliken 1971A. Unit: 19th Battalion, also 2nd Australian Pioneers, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 02 August 1916 Gallipoli
Died 2 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private William Adshead 3451. Unit: C Company, 17th Battalion, 5th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 02 August 1916 Western Front
Died 2 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private William Leslie McKenzie 3199. Unit: C Company, 8th Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 02 August 1916 Western Front
Died 2 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Wilfred James Dashwood. Unit: 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 02 August 1917 Killed in action Western Front
Died 2 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Gunner Henry Foster Midgley 3414. Unit: Australian Field Artillery, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 02 August 1917 Western Front
Died 2 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Ernest Leapidge Cooper 35966. Unit: 146th Army Troops Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 02 August 1917 Killed in action at the Third Battle of Ypres Western Front
Died 2 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Kenneth Fleetwood Gordon Pinhey. Unit: A Battery, 83rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 02 August 1917 Western Front
Died 2 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Arthur Baines GS/34819. Unit: 1st or/and 7th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 02 August 1917 Of wounds France Western Front
Died 2 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Joseph Wragg 35887. Unit: A Company, 1st/5th Battalion, Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Death: 02 August 1917 Missing in Action Western Front
Died 2 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Alan Ferrier Gates. Unit: "B" Battery, 307th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 2 August 1917, Flanders, Western Front.
Died 2 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Arthur William Savours. Unit: 6th Battalion, attached to 11th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 02 August 1918 Killed at Sailly-le-Sac Western Front
Died 2 August 1918
Imperial War Museum
Mrs Violet Long OBE, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps. Drowned when the Hospital Ship Warlida was torpedoed in the English Channel 02 August 1918.
Died 2 August 1918
Imperial War Museum
Mrs Violet Long OBE, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps. Drowned when the Hospital Ship Warlida was torpedoed in the English Channel 02 August 1918.
Died 2 August 1918
Imperial War Museum