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 Alan Bishop Jarvis. Unit: 10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, attached to No. 1 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 10 August 1917 Western Front.
Died 10 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain Albert Clive Hyland. Unit: Army Service Corps, attached to 6th Battalion, the Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Death: 10 August 1917 Died of wounds Western Front
Died 10 August 1917
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Company Serjeant Major James Rand L/8221, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Died 10 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Driver George Russell Rich 146244. Unit: 14th Division Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 10 August 1917 Western Front
Died 10 August 1917
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Major George Bernard Stratton , Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Died 10 August 1917
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Private Claud Ambrose Proctor 103163, Canadian Infantry
Died 10 August 1917
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Private Ernest Percy Pyke 48217, Royal Fusiliers (City of London regiment)
Died 10 August 1917
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Private Ernest Sandles G/39081, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Died 10 August 1917
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Private Fred William Withers 225312, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
Died 10 August 1917
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Private Frederick William Westley 28629, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 10 August 1917
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Private George Edward Gee 740885, London Regiment (Cyclists)
Died 10 August 1917
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Private Herbert Turnbull 99741, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 10 August 1917
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Private Horace Bellamy 28547, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 10 August 1917
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Private Hubert Simpson 20841, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 10 August 1917
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Private James Hamilton 50897. Unit: 1st Company, 13th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. Death: 10 August 1917, missing in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 10 August 1917
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Private Joseph Dobinson Thompson , Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 10 August 1917
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Private Pryce Astley 46499, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 10 August 1917
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Second Lieutenant Bret Hercules Barnett. Unit: C Company, 11th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 10 August 1917. Son of Frederick S. and Dora Barnett.
Died 10 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Edward Alexander McClatchie , Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Died 10 August 1917
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Second Lieutenant Ernest Harley Savory. Unit: 7th Battalion, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 10 August 1917 Missing, believed wounded Western Front
Died 10 August 1917
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Second Lieutenant Frank Goodair Edge , Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 10 August 1917
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Second Lieutenant Herbert Brutus Aubrey Harris. Unit: "C" Company, 7th Battalion, the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 10 August 1917, wounded and missing in action at Inverness Copse, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 10 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Herbert Walter Ford. Unit: 5th Battalion, the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 10 August 1917, Western Front.
Died 10 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Raymond Ernest Wilson. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 7th Battalion, The Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 10 August 1917 Western Front
Died 10 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Vincent Sladen Wing , Royal Field Artillery
Died 10 August 1917
Lives of the First World War