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!
Lieutenant Henry Humphrey Marten MID. Unit: 6th Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps, attached 2nd Battalion, The Manchester Regiment. Death: 13 August 1915 Western Front
Died 13 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private George Souter Kerr 16302. Unit: 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. Death: 13 August 1915 died when troopship HMT Royal Edward was torpedoed on it's way from Malta to Gallipoli, Dardanelles.
Died 13 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Bert Carloss 1725. Unit: 14th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 13 August 1916, died of wounds, Pozieres, Somme, Western Front.
Died 13 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Norman John Alexander Hall 2033. Unit: 12th Battalion, attached to the 52nd Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 13 August 1916, killed in action at Pozieres, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonne
Died 13 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Archie Darling Gould 3969. Unit: 52nd Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 13 August 1916, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 13 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Harold Edgar St. George. Unit: C Company, 6th (Rifle) Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 13 August 1916 Missing during fighting between Trones Wood and Guillemont. Western Front
Died 13 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Hayes Fearnhead. Unit: A Company, 1st/7th Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 13 August 1916, Guillemont, Somme, Western Front.
Died 13 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Llewellyn Hilton Roberts. Unit: 11th or 12th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 13 August 1916 near Bazentin Western Front
Died 13 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Sister Alice Mary Blacklock, Territorial Force Nursing Service. Died of illness contracted on duty 13 August 1916.
Died 13 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Sister Alice Mary Blacklock, Territorial Force Nursing Service. Died of illness contracted on duty 13 August 1916.
Died 13 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Staff Nurse Jessie Ritchie, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Died of illness contracted on duty in Alexandria 13 August 1916.
Died 13 August 1916
Imperial War Museum