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!
Bombardier Basil F Smith 50603, Royal Field Artillery
Died 12 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Arthur Russell Espury 26608, Essex Regiment
Died 12 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Thomas Watts 8186, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 12 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Nursing Sister Christine Jay , Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India
Died 12 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Portret van een vrouw met een jong kind op schoot, mogelijk in Nederland of Nederlands-Indië
12 August 1916
Rijksmuseum
Private Albert Rushbrooke Long 17178, Norfolk Regiment
Died 12 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Anthony Reid 11868. Unit: B Company, 6th/7th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Death: 12 August 1916 to 13 August 1916 Western Front
Died 12 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Ernest Purdy 18222, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Died 12 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private James H Hilton 7790, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died 12 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private John Abershaw 5/4187, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 12 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Owen Stanley Tolman 2511. Unit: 26th Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 12 August 1916 Died of wounds Western Front
Died 12 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Russell Lewis Mervyn Hateley 3131. Unit: 46th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 12 August 1916, killed in action at Pozieres Ridge, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 12 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Stephen Grady 13101, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died 12 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Walter Edmund Powell 66632, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 12 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private William Cassell 5/3770, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 12 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private William Hallsworth 14435, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 12 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Gordon Gerald Harper DCM. Unit: Machine Gun Section, Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Death: 12 August 1916, died of wounds in Cairo, Egypt, received at the Battle of Rumani Katia, Gallipoli, Dardanell
Died 12 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Harry Watson , The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Died 12 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Henry William Striegler. Unit: D Company, 7th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. Death: 12 August 1916 Wounded and MIA near Ovillers-Pozieres. Western Front
Died 12 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Mortimer Maddox , Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 12 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Leo Bernard Parsons , The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
Died 12 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Sister Christine K Jay, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Died of illness contracted on duty 12 August 1916.
Died 12 August 1916
Imperial War Museum