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!
Private Albert Keirle 10589, South Wales Borderers Depot
Died 15 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private George Joseph Hester 10892, South Wales Borderers
Died 15 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Henry Reginald Reynolds 11477, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Died 15 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Walter Reuben Hobbs 2632, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 15 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private William Cawson 5257, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 15 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Ferdinand Marsham-Townshend , Scots Guards
Died 15 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Laughton Hassard Alison , Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 15 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Trooper William Harry Rankin Woods 71, Australian Light Horse
Died 15 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Arthur Keith McFarlan , Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 15 May 1916
Lives of the First World War
Honourable Reverend Maurice Berkeley Peel , Army Chaplains' Department
Died 15 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Able Seaman Douglas Morris Henry Harris BZ/9359, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve - H.M. Drifter "Floandi."
Died 15 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal John Vallance 241945, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 15 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant John Harold Pritchard , Honourable Artillery Company
Died 15 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur Stuart Monroe 9225, Honourable Artillery Company
Died 15 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private George Harrison 14/1103, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 15 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Henry Worsley 203516, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Died 15 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private William Lawton 13/1207, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 15 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private William Montgomery 13/649, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 15 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman James Charles Dodds 653430, London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles)
Died 15 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Joseph Cyril Willett , Lancashire Fusiliers attached Machine Gun Corps
Died 15 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Sergeant James William Thornley 11685, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 15 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Percy James Hammond 10883, Royal Field Artillery
Died 15 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Captain Francis Leopold Mond , Royal Field Artillery, attached 57th Squadron, Royal Air Force
Died 15 May 1918
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Ernest Frederick Whittlestone 16563, Coldstream Guards
Died 15 May 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lance Serjeant Jack Reading Caswell 55, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 15 May 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Harry Jones , London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
Died 15 May 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Henry Bamford 24675, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 15 May 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private John Johnson 17093, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 15 May 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Jonathan Hall 14388, British West Indies Regiment
Died 15 May 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Ernest Stuart Smith , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 15 May 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Henry Johnson 7904, British West Indies Regiment
Died 15 May 1919
Lives of the First World War
Brigadier General Sir Claude Raul Champion de Crespigny, D.S.O., D.L., C.M.G., C.B , Grenadier Guards
Died 15 May 1941
Lives of the First World War
Commander Thomas Harry Balding , Moroccan Army Secondment
Died 15 May 1950
Lives of the First World War