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 Charles Matthews 33217, Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 11 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Deck Hand George Ernest Rawlings DA 8360, Royal Naval Reserve - HMS Pekin
Died 11 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lance Serjeant John Ravenhall 1842, Warwickshire Yeomanry
Died 11 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant James Clarke Stokoe , Manchester Regiment
Died 11 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Major Richard Lewis Hay Blake Jenkins , Australian Infantry
Died 11 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur William Holmes 400209, Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 11 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Harry Salter 16734, East Lancashire Regiment
Died 11 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private John Holt Bryan 2675, Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regiment)
Died 11 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Archibald Alexander Cassie 17088, 112th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Died 11 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Thomas Wignall 165544, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 11 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Edward Thomas Sewell 534344, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 11 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Frank Herbert Dennis 202879, Norfolk Regiment
Died 11 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Frank M Shaw 260045, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 11 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Victor Mark Mendoza 24208, Army Ordnance Corps
Died 11 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Walter Mills VC 375499, Manchester Regiment
Died 11 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Evan Calderbank 680061, Royal Field Artillery
Died 11 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Bombardier Thomas Borthwick Turnbull 645624, Royal Field Artillery
Died 11 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Frederick Vivian Lloyd Brereton Bunting Bateman 1261678, Canadian Garrison Artillery
Died 11 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick Elijah Smith 202816, Suffolk Regiment
Died 11 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Rudolph Wells 9305, British West Indies Regiment
Died 11 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Band Serjeant Albert Charles Matthewman 5259, 1st Bedfordshire Regiment
Died 11 December 1919
Lives of the First World War
Private William John Burton 12208, Royal Marine Light Infantry: Portsmouth Division
Died 11 December 1920
Lives of the First World War
Acting Serjeant Philip Knill 266112, Devonshire Regiment
Died 11 December 1942
Lives of the First World War
Corporal George Edwin Pester 12074, 87th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Died 11 December 1961
Lives of the First World War
Captain Alan Joseph MacDonald Richardson , North Somerset Yeomanry
Died 11 December 1963
Lives of the First World War