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 Dougall Blue. Unit: 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, attached to A Company, 2nd Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Death: 11 May 1915 Of wounds received near Fromelles Western Front
Died 11 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Charles Evan Roderick Pottinger MC. Unit: 17th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 11 May 1915 Western Front
Died 11 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Ernest John Douglas Bussell. Unit: Nigeria Regiment, West African Frontier Force. Death: 11 May 1915 East Africa
Died 11 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Jack Clixby Barnes. Unit: Royal Marines, Plymouth (11th) Battalion, Royal Naval Division. Death: 11 May 1915 Gallipoli Dardanelles
Died 11 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant James Richard Haig Anderson. Unit: A Company, 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. Death: 11 May 1915 Hooge Western Front
Died 11 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Major George Stopford Adams. Unit: 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. Death: 11 May 1915 Gallipoli Dardanelles
Died 11 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Major George Stopford Adams. Unit: 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. Death: 11 May 1915 Killed in action in the Dardanelles Gallipoli
Died 11 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant (Temporary Lieutenant) Donald Sherrington Pretty. Unit: 1st/4th Battalion (Territ), Suffolk Regiment. Death: 11 May 1915 Western Front
Died 11 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant George Frederick Cottrell. Unit: 108th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 11 May 1915 Killed in action at Ypres Western Front.
Died 11 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Thelwal Peake. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Death: 11 May 1915 Western Front
Died 11 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Philip Chorlton Nosworthy. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Attached to 2nd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. Death: 11 May 1915 Died of wounds near Ypres Western Front
Died 11 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Sterling Maurice MID. Unit: 1st Wessex Field Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 11 May 1915 Western Front
Died 11 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Charles Edmund Perriam Arthur 995. Unit: 5th Battery, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade, 1st Australian Division, Australian Expeditionary Force. Death: 11 May 1915 Dardanelles
Died 11 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Mrs Maud Miller, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of pneumonia 11 May 1917.
Died 11 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Mrs Maude Miller, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of pneumonia 11 May 1917.
Died 11 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private George P Webster S/14994. Unit: 10th Platoon, C Company, 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 11 May 1917 Missing in Action Western Front
Died 11 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Air Mechanic Arthur Trusson 40181. Unit: 48th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 11 May 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 11 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Felix George Remington. Unit: 3rd Heavy Artillery Group, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 11 May 1917 Athies near Arras Western Front
Died 11 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Simon Fraser. Unit: 58th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Forces. Death: 11 May 1917, Bullecourt, Western Front.
Died 11 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Sybil Downs, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died May 1917 11 May 1917.
Died 11 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Sybil Downs, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died May 1917 11 May 1917.
Died 11 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Trooper James Ferguson Boyce 1701. Unit: No 1 Company, Household Battalion. Death: 11 May 1917 Western Front
Died 11 May 1917
Imperial War Museum