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!
Lance Corporal Harold Arthur Porter 9608, South Wales Borderers
Died 12 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Arthur Thomas Crawford Cree , Durham Light Infantry
Died 12 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Cecil Fearnley 2764, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 12 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Edgar Charles Pratt 7941, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Died 12 May 1915
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Private James Henry Gittens 10838, South Wales Borderers
Died 12 May 1915
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Private John George Penn 1482, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 12 May 1915
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Private Oswald Morris Astley 2628, North Staffordshire Regiment
Died 12 May 1915
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Private Reginald William Cole 1844, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 12 May 1915
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Second Lieutenant Frank D'Arcy Blofeld , 2nd Life Guards
Died 12 May 1915
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Second Lieutenant John Leslie Johnston , 3rd Bn attached 2nd Bn The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Died 12 May 1915
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Private Edward Kerry 726, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
Died 12 May 1916
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2nd Lieutenant Norman John Thorpe , 1/8th Bn., Hampshire Regiment
Died 12 May 1917
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Captain Theodore Victor Chapman , The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Died 12 May 1917
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Captain William George Bransby Williams, M.C. , Royal Flying Corps
Died 12 May 1917
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Deck Hand Thomas Robert Jones DA 7836, Royal Naval Reserve
Died 12 May 1917
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Gunner Frederick John Workman 300958, Canadian Field Artillery
Died 12 May 1917
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Gunner Thomas Hilton Horbury 295657, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 12 May 1917
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Private Alfred William Turner G/71818, Middlesex Regiment
Died 12 May 1917
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Private Frederick Arthur GUIVER G/40161, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Died 12 May 1917
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Private Henry J W Purdew 18658, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 12 May 1917
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Private John Charles Vernon Muschamp 265605, Seaforth Highlanders
Died 12 May 1917
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Private John William Fell 14/1052, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 12 May 1917
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Private Joseph Cotterill 25399, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 12 May 1917
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Private Joseph Gorringe G/10674, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Died 12 May 1917
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Private Robert Turnbull 201087, Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 12 May 1917
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Serjeant Alfred Cleveley 9627, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 12 May 1917
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Musician Charles Arthur Duffield 1962, Royal Marines Band
Died 12 May 1918
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Private Henry St Bernard 16579, British West Indies Regiment
Died 12 May 1918
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Private Richard Watts Beresford 16911, British West Indies Regiment
Died 12 May 1918
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Private Wallace Hayward Billenness 65017, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 12 May 1918
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Staff Nurse Beatrice Georgina Frederica Forbes , Territorial Force Nursing Service
Died 12 May 1918
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Major Arthur McCulloch Inglis, D.S.O. , Gloucestershire Regiment attached Tank Corps
Died 12 May 1919
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Matron Margaret Heggie Smith , Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 12 May 1920
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Private Edward Fred Price 7078, Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 12 May 1921
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Captain William Anderson Bloomfield VC , Scouts Corps - South African Mounted Brigade
Died 12 May 1954
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Doctor Agnes Forbes Blackadder Savill , French Red Cross
Died 12 May 1964
Lives of the First World War