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!
Private Frederick Sangster 2652, Leicestershire Regiment
Died 7 April 1915
Lives of the First World War
Officer's Steward 3rd Class William Albert Nightingale L/8376, HMS Victory
Died 7 April 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Henry E Bryan 3580, British West Indies Regiment
Died 7 April 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private John Evan Lloyd 12247, King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Died 7 April 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private William Haigh 14/1185, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 7 April 1916
Lives of the First World War
Sister Mary Annie de Burgh Burt , Scottish Women's Hospital
Died 7 April 1916
Lives of the First World War
Captain Henry Dennis Smith-Ryland , Warwickshire Yeomanry
Died 7 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Edmund Columbus Renehan 2246, Australian Infantry
Died 7 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Ernest G Smith 2 242336, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 7 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private George Deane Browne 931246, No.2 Construction Battalion
Died 7 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Southwell Rigden 533285, London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 7 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Ernest Putt 14614, King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Died 7 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Herbert John Hall , Gordon Highlanders
Died 7 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant William Bruce Anderson , 5th Gordon Highlanders Territorial Force
Died 7 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Bombardier Alfred Herbert Thomas 845015, Royal Field Artillery
Died 7 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Leonard John Gimbrett 960939, Royal Field Artillery
Died 7 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Victor Edward Osborne , Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry attached Machine Gun Corps
Died 7 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Frank Hubert Read 537269, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 7 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private John Ewart Foord 43553, Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 7 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Theophilus Jackson 8448, British West Indies Regiment
Died 7 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Colour Serjeant Joseph Groom, D.C.M. 9865, 1st Shropshire Light Infantry
Died 7 April 1919
Lives of the First World War
Private Henry B Ford 10419, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 7 April 1919
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Henry Lambourne R6734, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 7 April 1923
Lives of the First World War
Captain James Stephens Fitzgerald , Royal Irish Regiment
Died 7 April 1927
Lives of the First World War
Surgeon General Anthony Alfred Bowlby , Army Medical Services
Died 7 April 1929
Lives of the First World War
Private Simeon Charles Bishop 31188, Royal Defence Corps
Died 7 April 1938
Lives of the First World War