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 Michael Wood M2/104388. Unit: Mechanical Transport, Army Service Corps. Death: 15 July 1915 Died of fever shortly before his Regiment went to France Home Front
Died 15 July 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Christopher Arthur Williams-Vaughan. Unit: South Wales Borderers, attached to 100th Company Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). Death: 15 July 1915 Western Front
Died 15 July 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Walter Joel Ralphs. Unit: 12th Battery, Royal Field Artillery and Shanghai Light Horse Regiment. Death: 15 July 1916 Western Front
Died 15 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Charles Frederick Wells Wait. Unit: 10th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Death: 15 July 1916, killed in action, Somme, Western Front.
Died 15 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private (Signaller) Robert Dalrymple 2515/330601. Unit: 9th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Highlanders). Death: 15 July 1916, killed in action, Somme, Western Front.
Died 15 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Alexander Black 4552/331725. Unit: "B" Company, 9th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Highlanders). Death: 15 July 1916, High Wood, Somme, Western Front.
Died 15 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Alexander William Joss 3049/330829. Unit: 9th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Highlanders). Death: 15 July 1916, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 15 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Daniel Jones 16115. Unit: 2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment. Death: 15 July 1916, missing in action, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 15 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private George Cunningham 4037/331327. Unit: 9th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Highlanders). Death: 15 July 1916, wounded and missing in action, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 15 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private James Harvey 4797/331900. Unit: 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 15 July 1916, missing in action at High Wood, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 15 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private John Henry Baker 3682. Unit: 58th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 15 July 1916
Died 15 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private John Scott 3099/330853. Unit: 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 15 July 1916 Missing
Died 15 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Kenneth Alexander MacRae 2130/330421. Unit: 16th Platoon, 4th Company, 9th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Highlanders). Death: 15 July 1916, Somme, Western Front.
Died 15 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Kenneth James Pound STK/799. Unit: 9th Platoon, C Company, 10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 15 July 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 15 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private William J. Barrie 4386/331593. Unit: "A" Company, 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 15 July 1916, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 15 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private William Lochhead. Unit: 58th Battalion, 15th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 15 July 1916, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 15 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Arthur Percival Sargeant. Unit: 3rd Platoon, A Company, 9th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment. Death: 15 July 1916 Wounded and missing Western Front.
Died 15 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Richard Dermott Atkinson. Unit: "A" Company, 16 Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 15 July 1916, High Wood, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 15 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant William Kelly Carmichael Ogg. Unit: 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 15 July 1916, missing, aged 18, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 15 July 1916
Imperial War Museum