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 Fitzhardinge Paul Butler VC, D.S.O. , 4th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, attached Gold Coast Regiment
Died 5 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Benjamin Bloomer 4259, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 5 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Corporal James Shepherd 13110, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died 5 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Driver James O’Neill 3439. Unit: Lewis Machine Gun Section, 49th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 05 September 1916 Western Front
Died 5 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Graham Yuille Laundy Walters. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Irish Guards, attached to Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). Death: 05 September 1916 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 5 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Cecil Waldron Quick Curtis 9410, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 5 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Douglas Brook M2/277850, Army Service Corps
Died 5 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Clifford James Chafey 13026, Devonshire Regiment
Died 5 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick Herbert Walter Shoesmith 3647, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 5 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private George A Armitage 21476, Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 5 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Henry Dixon Appleyard 14564, Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 5 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Herbert Payne 39265, Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 5 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Horace Dealtry 26356, Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 5 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Andrew Pearson Davidson , Gordon Highlanders
Died 5 September 1916
Lives of the First World War