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 Thomas Bell 2726, 10th (Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars
Died 8 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Warrant Officer Class 2 Samuel Shorten Arthur Wade 4191, Lincolnshire Regiment
Died 8 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Charles Andrew Martin , Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Died 8 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Alfred Ernest Pearse 400450, Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 8 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Edwin Derrington 13102, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 8 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Edward Ralph Rolls 10558, Dorsetshire Regiment
Died 8 December 1915
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Lance Serjeant Frederick Richard Hartnell 1217, Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 8 December 1916
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Major ATTWOOD ALFRED TORRENS , Royal Field Artillery
Died 8 December 1916
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Private Lazarus Hewitt 13/415, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 8 December 1916
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Rifleman Horace Septimus Wilson 6273, London Regiment
Died 8 December 1916
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Sergeant Francis Gerald Houston 4811, Australian Infantry,
Died 8 December 1916
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Guardsman Albert Edward Bourton 25368, Grenadier Guards
Died 8 December 1917
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Lance Corporal Charles Wadeson Mannooch 571497, London Regiment
Died 8 December 1917
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Lance Corporal John Sutcliffe 52158, 19th The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Died 8 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur Thomas Hay 534758, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 8 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Eliot Camrass 532630, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 8 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick Barnfather 535438, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 8 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private George Thomas Phillips 570329, London Regiment
Died 8 December 1917
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Private Harry Snell 17771, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 8 December 1917
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Private Herbert Holt 265532, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 8 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private James B Sayers 533887, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 8 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private John Wright 242974, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 8 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Stephen Albert Stimpson 7238, The London Regiment, Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles
Died 8 December 1917
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Private Walter Richardson 28103, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 8 December 1917
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Rifleman Albert Leng 551788, London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles)
Died 8 December 1917
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Rifleman Cyril Fraser 553052, London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles)
Died 8 December 1917
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Rifleman William George Hinton 44845, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 3rd
Died 8 December 1917
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Second Lieutenant Alan Mansell Alexander , London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles)
Died 8 December 1917
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Second Lieutenant Alan Thomas Fenner , North Staffordshire Regiment
Died 8 December 1917
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Gunner Thomas Breckell 84783, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 8 December 1918
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Private Cyril Littlejohn 120989, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Died 8 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private William Albert Samuel Dallimore 28385, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 8 December 1918
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Stoker 1st Class Victor Jordan K22513, HMS INDOMITABLE
Died 8 December 1918
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Bombardier Alfred Henry Stringer L/15152, Royal Field Artillery
Died 8 December 1919
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant George Fraser Kerr VC , 1st Central Ontario Regiment
Died 8 December 1929
Lives of the First World War
Captain Samuel Meekosha VC , Corps of Army Accountants
Died 8 December 1950
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Lewis Edward Best PI 40556, Royal Air Force
Died 8 December 1956
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Waldene Edgar Bredin , Royal Irish Regiment
Died 8 December 1961
Lives of the First World War