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 Edmund George William Oldfield MID. Unit: 1st/8th (Ardwick) Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Death: 05 May 1915 Gallipoli
Died 5 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Edward Henry Brocklehurst. Unit: 1st/6th Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 05 May 1915 Ypres Western Front
Died 5 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain John Gould Adams. Unit: 1st Battalion, Leinster Regiment. Death: 05 May 1915 Western Front
Died 5 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Robert Gibson. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to the 2nd Battalion (as Adjutant), King's Own Scottish Borderers. Death: 5 May 1915, Hill 60, Ypres, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 5 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal George Arthur Alexander Clackett G/4902. Unit: A Company, 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment. Death: 05 May 1915 Wounded and Missing in action Western Front
Died 5 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur De Courcy Scott. Unit: 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. Death: 05 May 1915 Killed in action near Zillebecke Western Front.
Died 5 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Francis George Jones MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Inskilling Fusiliers. Death: 05 May 1915.
Died 5 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Cortlandt Richard MacGregor. Unit: 2nd Battalion, The South Wales Borderers. Death: 05 May 1915 Gallipoli
Died 5 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant George Arthur Chalcraft. Unit: 4th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment, attached to 2nd Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). Death: 05 May 1915 Died of gas poisoning Western Front
Died 5 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Henry Thornton Miller. Unit: 3rd Battalion (Reserve), East Yorkshire Regiment, attached 2nd Battalion, Duck of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment). Death: 05 May 1915 Hill 60 Ypres Western Front
Died 5 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Thomas Wilson Wilson. Unit: C Company, 6th (Rifle) Battalion, The Kings (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 05 May 1915 Western Front
Died 5 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Walter Montagu West. Unit: 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Death: 05 May 1915 Died of wounds near Ypres Western Front
Died 5 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Major Harold Gage Bewes Armstrong MID. Unit: Portsmouth Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Marine Light Infantry. Death: 05 May 1915 Pope's Post Dardanelles
Died 5 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Alan David Mitchell 1459 or 1323. Unit: D Company, 1st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 05 May 1915 Egypt
Died 5 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Alexander Tullis 14046. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment). Death: 05 May 1915 Killed in action as a result of gas poisoning Western Front
Died 5 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private M H G Lithgow 641. Unit: A Company, 10th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Australian Expeditionary Force, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 05 May 1915 At Gallipoli Gallipoli
Died 5 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Anthony Bean Tracey Simpson. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment). Death: 05 May 1915 Missing after being gassed on Hill 60 Western Front
Died 5 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Edgar Kahn. Unit: 1st Battalion, Leinster Regiment. Death: 05 May 1915 On Hill 60 Western Front.
Died 5 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Sub Lieutenant James Henry Bookless. Unit: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Nelson Battalion, Royal Naval Division. Death: 05 May 1915 Gallipoli Dardanelles
Died 5 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Leslie Leitch Bradley 4144. Unit: 13th Reinforcements, 6th Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 05 May 1916 France Western Front
Died 5 May 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Richard H Smith 10/1231. Unit: 10th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 05 May 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 5 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Clement Southwell Keen 81. Unit: 12th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 05 May 1917 Gallipoli Dardanelles.
Died 5 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Miller Maffaking Fergusson 6082. Unit: 17th Reinforcements, 27th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 05 May 1917, Western Front.
Died 5 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Robert Wilfroy Riggs 6593. Unit: 21st Reinforcement, 12th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 05 May 1917 to 08 May 1917 At Bullecourt Western Front
Died 5 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Rfmn Newberry was killed on 5 May 1917 on the Western Front. He is buried at Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty.
Died 5 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Sapper George Alexander Kemp 218. Unit: 1st Divisional Signal Company, Australian Engineers, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 05 May 1917 Western Front.
Died 5 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Henry Thomas John McGrath 2149. Unit: D Company, 3rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 05 May 1917 Bullecourt Western Front
Died 5 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Miss Elizabeth M Warnock, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of illness contracted on duty in France 05 May 1918.
Died 5 May 1918
Imperial War Museum
Nurse Elizabeth M Warnock, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of illness contracted on duty in France 05 May 1918.
Died 5 May 1918
Imperial War Museum