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 Francis Lloyd Dyer. Unit: 93rd Burma Infantry, Indian Army. Death: 15 April 1915 Mesopotamia, missing in action. Son of John and Grace Dyer.
Died 15 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain William Leonard Reid. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment. Death: 15 April 1915 Shaiba Mesopotamia
Died 15 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Xavier Britten MID. Unit: 2nd in Command, 110th Mahratta Light Infantry, Indian Army. Death: 15 April 1915 Shaiba Mesopotamia
Died 15 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Arthur Cyril Brickwood. Unit: 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment. Death: 15 April 1915 France Western Front. Son of Sir John and Lady Brickwood, of Hindhead and Portsmouth.
Died 15 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Nisbet. Unit: 3rdBattalion, attached 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment). Death: 15 April 1915 Killed in action Western Front
Died 15 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Theodore Anthony Brown. Unit: B Company, 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Death: 15 April 1917.
Died 15 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Edwin Jordan 79. Unit: B Company, 4th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 15 April 1917 Western Front.
Died 15 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal John W McQuarrie 5858. Unit: C Company, 17th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 15 April 1917 Western Front
Died 15 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Mrs Sarah Cooper, Munitions work. Died of amatol poisoning 15 April 1917.
Died 15 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private James Hickey 69. Unit: "D" Company, 12th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 15 April 1917, killed in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 15 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Arnold Firth. Unit: 3rd/7th London Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, attached to "C" Battery, 291st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 15 April 1917, Western Front.
Died 15 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant George Kirkpatrick MM 934. Unit: 17th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 15 April 1917 Western Front. Son of Hugh and Mary Kirkpatrick, of West Kempsey, New South Wales. Born at Armidale.
Died 15 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain Donald Francis Neilson DSO MC. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 15 April 1918 Killed in action Western Front
Died 15 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private Elias Edgar Isaacs 51543. Unit: B Company, 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 15 April 1918 Western Front. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Isaacs, of The Duke of York, Berger Rd., Homerton, London.
Died 15 April 1918
Imperial War Museum