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!
Gunner Edward Edmund Murree 41567, Canadian Field Artillery
Died 8 July 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Edward Flaherty 7694, Royal Scots Fusiliers
Died 8 July 1915
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Lieutenant Walter Washington Buchanan Rodger , Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Died 8 July 1915
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Private Frederick George Marshall 11708, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 8 July 1915
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Private James W Young 2393, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Died 8 July 1915
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Corporal Reginald Backshall 241754, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 8 July 1916
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Private Alfred Braithwaite 14/1100, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 8 July 1916
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Private George Edward Turnbull 16624, Yorkshire Regiment
Died 8 July 1916
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Private Henry John Bannell 7006, Duke Of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment)
Died 8 July 1916
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Private John Edwin Balme 15/1093, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
Died 8 July 1916
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Private Lewis Hallas Jessop 5/4262, West Riding Regiment
Died 8 July 1916
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Private Thomas Goodwin 22180, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died 8 July 1916
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Rifleman Cyril Bernardine Holroyd 4381, London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles)
Died 8 July 1916
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Second Lieutenant Arthur William Spring Cowie , Lincolnshire Regiment
Died 8 July 1916
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Second Lieutenant Cyril Edward Cook , Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 8 July 1916
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Second Lieutenant Owen W Steele 326, Newfoundland Regiment
Died 8 July 1916
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Second Lieutenant Tom Dalrymple Strathern , Yorkshire Regiment
Died 8 July 1916
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Second Lieutenant William Beaumont Burns , Worcestershire Regiment
Died 8 July 1916
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Serjeant Henry George Young 60673, Royal Field Artillery
Died 8 July 1916
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Major Kenneth Mitchell Potter, D.S.O. , Royal Field Artillery
Died 8 July 1917
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Private Alfred Job Gethings 203469, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 8 July 1917
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Private Frederick Arthur Terry L/10361, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
Died 8 July 1917
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Private James Herbert George Skinner 32822, Leicestershire Regiment
Died 8 July 1917
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Private Thomas Sellar Ritchie S/16412, Seaforth Highlanders
Died 8 July 1917
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Acting Bombardier William Conway 60405, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 8 July 1918
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Corporal Charles Thomas Robert 50423, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 8 July 1918
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Corporal George Watson 28931, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 8 July 1918
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Private James Peter Rhodes 39085, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 8 July 1918
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Private John Bertram Hardiman 50652, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 8 July 1918
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Private John Herbert Taylor Day 34833(Incomplete), Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 8 July 1918
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Private Robert Gilbertson 29127, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 8 July 1918
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Private William Christopher Bartholomew 38895, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 8 July 1918
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Private William George Knight 36107, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 8 July 1918
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Private William Thomas Appleton 35815, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 8 July 1918
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Second Lieutenant John Albert Edward Robertson Daley, D.F.C. , British West Indies Regiment
Died 8 July 1918
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Serjeant George Charles Perring 48210, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 8 July 1918
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Third Mate George William Margerison , Mercantile Marine - "SS Chicago"
Died 8 July 1918
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Driver Christian Losper 4504, Cape Auxiliary Horse Transport
Died 8 July 1919
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Private Robert William Ernest Deacon 208936, Labour Corps
Died 8 July 1919
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Corporal Joseph Richard Levett 202042, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 8 July 1920
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Lieutenant General Launcelotte Gubbins , Army Medical Services
Died 8 July 1925
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Private John Franklyn Edwards 12894, Devonshire Regiment
Died 8 July 1937
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4th Class Chaplain Edward Noel Mellish VC , Royal Army Chaplain's Department
Died 8 July 1962
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