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!
Lance Corporal Thomas Kelly 5904, Royal Irish Regiment
Died 4 January 1915
Lives of the First World War
Sub Lieutenant Keith Morehead Gunning Campbell , HM Submarine C31
Died 4 January 1915
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Hubert Wellington Cox 17674, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 4 January 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private William Henry Withington 7816, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 4 January 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant George Ritchie Cairns , Royal Field Artillery
Died 4 January 1916
Lives of the First World War
Captain Frederick Courtney Selous, D.S.O. , Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Died 4 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Thomas Aloysius Rawcliffe P/1306, Military Foot Police
Died 4 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Sergeant Henry Scott Vermont Graham 3115, British West Indies Regiment
Died 4 January 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal George Johnson 20188, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 January 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Albert Neave Westlake , North Staffordshire Regiment
Died 4 January 1918
Lives of the First World War
Officer's Cook 2nd Class Louis Harper L6386, H.M.S. "P 60."
Died 4 January 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Clifford Spurr 240099, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 4 January 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Ferdinand Theodore Wundenberg 2167, Australian Infantry
Died 4 January 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Jack Diamond Sumner-Potts 1203, 7th Light Horse Regiment
Died 4 January 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Wentworth Gray Trimingham , Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 4 January 1918
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant John Stewart 14216, 1st Lincolnshire Regiment
Died 4 January 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Walter Arnold 5021, British West Indies Regiment
Died 4 January 1919
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Howard 46355, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 4 January 1920
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas William Holmes VC 838301, 4th Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles
Died 4 January 1950
Lives of the First World War
Driver William George Stroud 82273, Royal Field Artillery
Died 4 January 1965
Lives of the First World War
Major Wilfred Edwards VC 13303, Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 4 January 1972
Lives of the First World War