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 (acting Major) George Luard Alexander , London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)
Died 5 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Captain Bertram Best-Dunkley VC , Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 5 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Captain Edward Malcolm Cunningham , 2nd West Riding Regiment
Died 5 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Captain Roy Bowes MC. Unit: 15th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Death: 05 August 1917 Western Front
Died 5 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Corporal George William Turner 29429, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 5 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Lewis Milford Scawen 5457, Leinster Regiment
Died 5 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Victor Moffet De La Fontaine , East Surrey Regiment
Died 5 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Henry Boardman , Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Died 5 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private D Sullivan 15917, 4th Regiment South African Infantry
Died 5 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Edgar James Thomas 534532, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 5 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Samuel Kirby 20248, Duke Of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment)
Died 5 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Vernon Asquith 242279, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Died 5 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private William Harry Metcalf 19913, Cheshire Regiment
Died 5 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Oswald Lucking Strong , Somerset Light Infantry attached Trench Motor Battery
Died 5 August 1917
Lives of the First World War