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!
2nd Corporal Arthur Albert Martin 73110, Royal Engineers
Died 12 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Acting Lance Serjeant David Griffiths 25420, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 12 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Captain Charles Acland Keele. Unit: 14th Battalion, attached to the 12th Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Death: 12 July 1916 Poperinghe, Western Front.
Died 12 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Edward J R Pearcey 18932, Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 12 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Robert Joseph Cowman 16087. Unit: "D" Company, 17th Battalion, the King's (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 10 July to 12 July 1916, wounded and missing in action near Trones Wood, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 12 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Gunner Walter Charles Wickens 58360, Royal Field Artillery
Died 12 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal James John Herbert Howard 19963, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 12 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel Oswald Swift Flower , Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 12 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Clarence Stuart Webb 17457, Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 12 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private David Arthur Shakespeare 4321, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 12 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Frank Alfred Wettle 2008, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 12 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private George Albert Elliott Barnes SD/148, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 12 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Henry William Forster 5268, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 12 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private John Alfred Riddiford M2/153891, Army Service Corps
Died 12 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Nicholas Maxwell 9550, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Died 12 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Atkinson 14000, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 12 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas David Williams 48494, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 12 July 1916
Lives of the First World War