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 Joseph Harbird Hewlett 2010, East Kent Regiment
Died 4 April 1915
Lives of the First World War
Company Quarter Master Serjeant Carleton Eric Laurence C1218, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 4 April 1916
Lives of the First World War
Driver Robert Anthony Newton 36512, Royal Field Artillery
Died 4 April 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick John Archer NR/20170, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 4 April 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Robert Leslie Willmot Nicholl 17686, Welsh Regiment
Died 4 April 1916
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Private Robert Thomas Pask 15893, South Wales Borderers
Died 4 April 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas P Roberts 24037, Worcestershire Regiment
Died 4 April 1916
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Rifleman Fred Johnson King C/12371, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 4 April 1916
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Gunner Robert Pritchard Jones 92372, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 4 April 1917
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Lance Corporal James McDonald D/12944, Corps of Dragoons
Died 4 April 1917
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Private Clarence Allen Burling 27A, Australian Infantry
Died 4 April 1917
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Private Edgar Whichello 11738, Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 4 April 1917
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Private Leonard Samuel Kilroy F/559, Middlesex Regiment
Died 4 April 1917
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Private Sidney Ernest Stephens 555, Australian Infantry
Died 4 April 1917
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Private William George Victor Reynolds 14656, Dorsetshire Regiment
Died 4 April 1917
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Private William Stephen Roberts 2469, Australian Infantry
Died 4 April 1917
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Second Lieutenant Harold Charles Davis , London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
Died 4 April 1917
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Stewardess Elizabeth McLean , Mercantile Marine - S.S. "City of Paris" (Glasgow)
Died 4 April 1917
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Boy 1st Class Frank Albert Sharpe J71413, H.M.S. "Victory I"
Died 4 April 1918
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Captain Hugh McColl Johnston , Royal Army Veterinary Corps
Died 4 April 1918
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Chief Petty Officer Philip William Baker 183187, HMS Bittern
Died 4 April 1918
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Corporal Herbert William Bower 8909, 2nd West Riding Regiment
Died 4 April 1918
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Gunner William Abraham Hastings 61337, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 4 April 1918
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Lance Corporal Fasham Henry Bensley 1257, 320088, London Regiment
Died 4 April 1918
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Lance-Corporal Arthur Sydney Lennox Hay 265490, Seaforth Highlanders
Died 4 April 1918
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Lieutenant The Honorable Harold Fox Pitt Lubbock , Grenadier Guards
Died 4 April 1918
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Midshipman William Cecil Hoadley , Royal Naval Reserve - HMS Bittern
Died 4 April 1918
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Private Charles Henry CHAPLIN 534516, 1/15 London Regiment (The Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 4 April 1918
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Private Francis Joseph Webb 34503, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 4 April 1918
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Private Jack Hawley Janes 35579, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Died 4 April 1918
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Private James Leonard Tate 534930, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 4 April 1918
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Private John Bloomendaal 25, British West Indies Regiment
Died 4 April 1918
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Rifleman John Hadley 322691, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 4 April 1918
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Rifleman Walter Butcher 321859, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 4 April 1918
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Rifleman Walter William Atkinson 322607, London Regiment
Died 4 April 1918
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Second Lieutenant Harold S Green , 4th Dragoon Guards (Royal Irish)
Died 4 April 1918
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Second Lieutenant Sidney George Clark , 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 4 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Stoker 1st Class William Charles Follett K37421, HMS Bittern
Died 4 April 1918
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Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Parkes 160640, Royal Air Force
Died 4 April 1919
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Nursing Sister Jessie Nelson King , Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 4 April 1919
Lives of the First World War
Acting Captain George Sanders VC , West Yorkshire Regiment
Died 4 April 1950
Lives of the First World War
Captain Bertram Baden , Worcestershire Regiment and 9th London Regiment QVRs
Died 4 April 1960
Lives of the First World War
Private Richard George Masters VC M2/048544, Army Service Corps
Died 4 April 1963
Lives of the First World War