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!
Captain Cecil Strachan Wood. Unit: Reserve of Officers, 3rd Battalion, attached 1st Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 02 December 1914 Accidentally killed at Le Havre. (Officially listed as having died on 31 December 1914 of wounds received in ac
Died 2 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Adruenna Allen Tupper, Canadian Army Medical Corps. Died of pneumonia 02 December 1916.
Died 2 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Edward August Fiegert 2605. Unit: 5th Reinforcements, 32nd Batalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 2 December 1916, Western Front.
Died 2 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Eugene Schuyler A Earle 589. Unit: B Company, 33rd Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 02 December 1916 Armentieres Western Front
Died 2 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain James Alexander. Unit: C Company, 16th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 02 December 1917 Missing at Ypres or Passchendael Western Front
Died 2 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lydia Stirling, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of illness contracted on duty 02 December 1917.
Died 2 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lydia Stirling, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of illness contracted on duty 02 December 1917.
Died 2 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Alfred Hatherill 201973. Unit: 8th Platoon, "B" Company, 2nd/6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 2 December 1917, missing in action at Cambrai, Western Front. Commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial.
Died 2 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Archibald Thomson served with 14th Platoon, 'D' Company, 16th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, 97th Machine Gun Corps. He came from Stockbriggs, Lanarkshire. His service number was 29962. He was killed on 2 December 1917 aged 37. He is commemo
Died 2 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private David Edgard McMillan 42323. Unit: 14th Platoon, D Company, 16th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 02 December 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 2 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private James H Semple 37854. Unit: B Company, 16th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 02 December 1917 Killed at Paschendale Ridge. Western Front
Died 2 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Herbert Alfred Vincent Wait. Unit: D Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Death: 02 December 1917 Missing in Action Western Front
Died 2 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant John Harold Seddon 354168. Unit: D Company, 1st/7th Battalion, London Regiment. Death: 02 December 1917 Missing
Died 2 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
The Plain of Ajalon : the Lowland troops crossing the plain. On the left are the two Beth Horons.
2 December 1917
Imperial War Museum