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 Eustace Hotham Burnaby , Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 5 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class Alfred Hunt M411, HM Submarine C33
Died 5 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Norman Elmo Anstis 10/3469, Wellington Infantry Regiment
Died 5 August 1916
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Acting Sergeant Frederick Allan Bath 3781, 6th Infantry Brigade
Died 5 August 1916
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Acting Serjeant Henry George Thomas GS/567, Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 5 August 1916
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Corporal Harold Owen Cook 30, 7th Australian Infantry Brigade
Died 5 August 1916
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Corporal William Henry Andrewartha 4356, Australian Infantry
Died 5 August 1916
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Gunner Ezra Yates 1340, Royal Horse Artillery & Royal Fiedl Artillery
Died 5 August 1916
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Lance Corporal Charles Frederick Berry 29, Australian Machine Gun Corps
Died 5 August 1916
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Lance Corporal Charles William Thear 2496, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Died 5 August 1916
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Private Charles Beasley 28, Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
Died 5 August 1916
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Private Douglas Johnson 4753, 3/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 5 August 1916
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Private George Mark Barton 19112, 13th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
Died 5 August 1916
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Private Harold Augustine Flynn 1439, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 5 August 1916
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Private Luke Townend 12744, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 5 August 1916
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Private Richard Henry Bascombe 12528, The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Died 5 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Edward Lockhart Shaw , The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Died 5 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant George Sainton Kaye Butterworth , Durham Light Infantry
Died 5 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Harold George Loverock , Warwickshire Yeomanry
Died 5 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Humphrey Osborn Springfield , Warwickshire Yeomanry
Died 5 August 1916
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Serjeant Charles Newton 12704, The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Died 5 August 1916
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Captain (acting Major) George Luard Alexander , London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)
Died 5 August 1917
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Captain Bertram Best-Dunkley VC , Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 5 August 1917
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Captain Edward Malcolm Cunningham , 2nd West Riding Regiment
Died 5 August 1917
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Corporal George William Turner 29429, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 5 August 1917
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Lance Corporal Lewis Milford Scawen 5457, Leinster Regiment
Died 5 August 1917
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Lieutenant Colonel Henry Victor Moffet De La Fontaine , East Surrey Regiment
Died 5 August 1917
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Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Henry Boardman , Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Died 5 August 1917
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Private D Sullivan 15917, 4th Regiment South African Infantry
Died 5 August 1917
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Private Edgar James Thomas 534532, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 5 August 1917
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Private Samuel Kirby 20248, Duke Of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment)
Died 5 August 1917
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Private Vernon Asquith 242279, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Died 5 August 1917
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Private William Harry Metcalf 19913, Cheshire Regiment
Died 5 August 1917
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Second Lieutenant Oswald Lucking Strong , Somerset Light Infantry attached Trench Motor Battery
Died 5 August 1917
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Albert Edmund GUIVER 34918 formerly 51695 Welsh Regt, 1st/5th
Died 5 August 1918
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Deck Hand Victor Springall DA 12573, Royal Naval Reserve
Died 5 August 1918
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Lieutenant George Frederick Hodson PI 39202, Royal Air Force
Died 5 August 1918
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Private Arthur Percival Tanner 34289, Dorsetshire Regiment
Died 5 August 1918
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Serjeant James Edward Whiting 3156, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 5 August 1920
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Corporal Charles S Purt 10048, Leicestershire Regiment
Died 5 August 1926
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Corporal Francis Pegahmagabow, M.M. and Two Bars 6846, 1st Battalion, Western Ontario Regiment
Died 5 August 1952
Lives of the First World War
Brigadier General James Forbes Robertson VC , Border Regiment
Died 5 August 1955
Lives of the First World War