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 John Stanley Harrowing , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Company Quarter Master Serjeant L Mason 6065, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Reginald Harcourt Powell 23256, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 4 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal William Henry Bidgood 23676. Unit: 6th Platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 04 May 1917 Bullecourt Western Front
Died 4 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant William Beaumont Alliban MID. Unit: 2nd/5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment). Death: 04 May 1917 Missing near St Quentin Western Front
Died 4 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Charles Wheeler 451, 3rd Regt. South African Infantry
Died 4 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Cooper Allen Robinson 9084, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 4 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Frank Bramall 241920, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 4 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private James Alfred Noble 18564, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died 4 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private John Howard Rushton 10456, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Leonard Ainsworth Bolver 40393, Manchester Regiment
Died 4 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Maurice P Ellis 241237, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 4 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Reginald Hartley Tyson 5409. Unit: "D" Company, 19th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 4 May 1917, wounded and missing in action, Western Front.
Died 4 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Robert Emblen Winrow 53800, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 4 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private William Atkinson DM2/168795. Unit: 6th and 905th Motor Transport Companies, Army Service Corps. Death: 04 May 1917 At sea off Savona lost with passenger liner SS Transylvania.
Died 4 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private William Fred Culverhouse 202966, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
Died 4 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private William John Henry Payne 19336, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Alfred George Fawdry , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Alfred Montague Syrett , Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 4 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Herbert Henry Holden Lister , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant John Elwyn Slater. Unit: 5th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment, attached to 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. Death: 04 May 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 4 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Myles Dunwoody , Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Died 4 May 1917
Lives of the First World War