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 Oliver William Benn. Unit: 9th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, attached to X Company, 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment. Death: 05 June 1915
Died 5 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain T W Lonsdale MC. Unit: 7th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. Death: 05 June 1915 Near St Omer Western Front
Died 5 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant (Temporary) John Arthur Rice McCormick. Unit: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Nelson Battalion, Royal Naval Division. Death: 05 June 1915 Gallipoli
Died 5 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant (Temp Lieutenant) Edmund Turner (Taylor?) Young. Unit: 1/6th Battalion (Territorial), The Manchester Regiment. Death: 05 June 1915 Gallipoli
Died 5 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Alan Evison Rodgers. Unit: 5th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Death: 05 June 1915 Gallipoli Dardanelles
Died 5 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Alastair Finlay Paterson. Unit: D Company, 4th Battalion, The Queen’s Own Camerson Highlanders. Death: 05 June 1915 Western Front
Died 5 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Andrew Hubert Fairbairn. Unit: 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, attached to the 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment. Death: 05 June 1915, prisoner of war at Oost-Nieukerke.
Died 5 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Humphrey Kaye Bonney Nevinson. Unit: 1st/10th (Territorial) Battalion, The Manchester Regiment. Death: 05 June 1915 Died on board the hospital ship Somali after being wounded on 4 June 1915 attacking the Turkish trenches. Gallipoli
Died 5 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Louis George Broome. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment). Death: 05 June 1915 France Western Front
Died 5 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Arthur Stuart Meade 1501. Unit: 3rd Reinforcements, 1st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 05 June 1915 Gallipoli
Died 5 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Leslie Stephen Robertson. Unit: Lord Kitchener’s Staff, Director of Production at the Ministry of Munitions. Death: 05 June 1916 Lost on HMS Hampshire by a mine at around 19:40 on June 5 1916 off Mainland Orkney between Brough of Birsay and Marwick Hea
Died 5 June 1916
Imperial War Museum
Able Seaman (Signalman) William George Waterman Tyneside Z/4464. Unit: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, HMS Hampshire. Death: 05 June 1916 Killed in Action when the cruiser H.M.S. “Hampshire†was sunk by a mine off the coast of Orkney. She was carrying
Died 5 June 1916
Imperial War Museum
Brigadier General Hay Frederick Donaldson KCB. Unit: Chief Superintendent Ordnance Factories, on the staff of Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War. Death: 05 June 1916 Died when the battleship HMS Hampshire was mined and sank off Scapa Floe Home Wat
Died 5 June 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant George Philip Burlton MC. Unit: 1st Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. Death: 5 June 1916.
He was one of two officers of 1 Norfolk Regiment reported missing on 5 June 1916. Lt Burlton and Lt Edwards are believed to have been killed when they went up
Died 5 June 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Humphrey Matthews. Unit: Royal Navy. Death: 05 June 1916 North Sea/Orkney
Died 5 June 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant William Walker Skynner. Unit: Royal Navy, HMS Hampshire. Death: 05 June 1916
Died 5 June 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Donald McIntyre 432287. Unit: 8th Platoon, B Company, 49th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 05 June 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 5 June 1916
Imperial War Museum
Sub Lieutenant Thomas Henry Wilfrid Sharples. Unit: Royal Navy. Death: 05 June 1916 Went down on board HMS Hampshire with Lord Kitchener North Sea
Died 5 June 1916
Imperial War Museum
Corporal (Acting) Gerald Arthur Collett 2363. Unit: 3rd Anzac Battalion, 1st Imperial Camel Corps (Australian). Death: 05 June 1917 Killed in action Palestine
Died 5 June 1917
Imperial War Museum
Miss Edith Elizabeth Taylor, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of illness in Scarborough, 5 June 1917.
Died 5 June 1917
Imperial War Museum
Miss Edith Elizabeth Taylor, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of illness in Scarborough, 5 June 1917.
Died 5 June 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Frank Collins. Service number: S/25158 and 1/15109. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, attached to 41st Training Reserve Battalion. Death: 05 June 1918 Died of wounds Western Front
Died 5 June 1918
Imperial War Museum