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 Reginald Charles Falconer Salter. Unit: 2nd Battalion, The Prince of Wale’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment). Death: 08 June 1915 Killed while directing trench digging at night outside Ypres. Western Front
Died 8 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Major William Henry Johnston VC. Unit: Brigade Major, 15th Infantry Brigade, Royal Engineers. Death: 08 June 1915 Ypres, Western Front.
Died 8 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
PHOTOGRAPHS RELATING TO THE SERVICE OF ALFRED HERBERT TRESHAM ANDREW AS A MEDICAL OFFICER WITH 88TH FIELD AMBULANCE (RAMC), 29TH DIVISION, DURING THE GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN, 1915.
8 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Leo Edwards. Unit: 1st Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. Death: 08 June 1916 Arras Western Front. Son of Stephen Rowe Edwards and Agnes Edwards, of 8, The Common. Ealing, London.
Died 8 June 1916
Imperial War Museum
Brigadier General Charles Henry Jeffries Brown DSO MID. Unit: Commanding 1st New Zealand Infantry Brigade, New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Death: 08 June 1917 Western Front
Died 8 June 1917
Imperial War Museum
Gunner George Mudie Larnach 16432. Death: 08 June 1917 Western Front
Died 8 June 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Geoffrey Robert Sherborn 25592. Unit: 12th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. Death: 08 June 1917 Died of wounds received at Voormezeele Western Front
Died 8 June 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private John Chadwick Hardman 187. Unit: "A" Company, 44th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 8 June 1917, killed in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 8 June 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Leslie Emanuel Bowman 13262. Unit: 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 June 1917 Messines Western Front
Died 8 June 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Herbert Allen Joseph MID. Unit: 2nd Regiment, South African Infantry (possibly 3rd). Death: 8 June 1917 died of wounds, Western Front.
Died 8 June 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Herbert Edwin Lawry 6341. Unit: 21st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 June 1918 In hospital in Melbourne
Died 8 June 1918
Imperial War Museum