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 George Morton. Unit: 5th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 13 July 1915 Missing Western Front
Died 13 July 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Hubert Reginald Baldwin. Unit: Nelson Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Death: 13 July 1915 Gallipoli Dardanelles
Died 13 July 1915
Imperial War Museum
Sub Lieutenant Basil Wilson Smyth. Unit: Nelson Battalion, Royal Navy Division, Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. Death: 13 July 1915 Missing at the Dardanelles last seen with Lieutenant Baldwin of same Battalion. Gallipoli/Dardanelles
Died 13 July 1915
Imperial War Museum
Corporal (Acting Sergeant) Herbert Henry Wickens G/1868. Unit: 7th Battalion, East Kent Regiment (The Buffs). Death: 13 July 1916 Killed in Action at Trones Wood Western Front
Died 13 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Ivan Provis Wentworth Bennett. Unit: 7th Battalion, the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 13 July 1916, Trones Wood, Somme, Western Front. Buried at the Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery.
Died 13 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant John Dudley Whyte. Unit: 8th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Death: 13 July 1916 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 13 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Frederick Edwin Gilks G/3210. Unit: "C" Company, 7th Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Death: 5 July to 13 July 1916, Trones Wood, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 13 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Henry Alexander Brand 24805. Unit: 20th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 13 July 1916, Somme, Western Front.
Died 13 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private John Kempshall G/6925. Unit: "A" Company, 7th Battalion, the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 13 July 1916, missing in action, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 13 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Joseph Melville Druce PS/1973. Unit: 16th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (Public Schools Battalion). Death: 13 July 1916, Somme, Western Front.
Died 13 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant James Forsyth. Unit: 9th Battalion, attached to the 7th Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Death: 13 July 1916, Trones Wood, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 13 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Norman George Wright. Unit: 9th Battalion, The Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 13 July 1916 Wounded and Missing in Action Western Front
Died 13 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Rifleman Thomas Frederick Wright 301491 MM. Unit: A Company, 2nd/5th Battalion, London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade). Death: 13 July 1917 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 13 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Horace Frederick Denyer MID. Unit: 12th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. Death: 13 July 1917 Killed in action Greece. Son of Edwin and Selina Frances Denyer, of Windsor, Berks.
Died 13 July 1917
Imperial War Museum