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!
Bombardier Walter Robinson Vaughan 12334, 66th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Died 15 December 1916
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Albert Arthur Hunter 11095, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
Died 15 December 1916
Lives of the First World War
Major Walter Richard Evans , Leicestershire Regiment
Died 15 December 1916
Lives of the First World War
Miss Sylvia Gurney, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of septic poisoning contracted on duty 15 December 1916.
Died 15 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
Officer's Steward 3rd Class Henry Joseph Taylor L9074, H.M.S. "Victory"
Died 15 December 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Henry Kenward 15398, Grenadier Guards
Died 15 December 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Francis A. Charlwood 30291, Worcestershire Regiment
Died 15 December 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Henry James Broome GS/694, Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 15 December 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Nicholas J Mann 9543, Worcestershire Regiment
Died 15 December 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private William G Haynes 4034, Worcestershire Regiment
Died 15 December 1916
Lives of the First World War
Reverend Reginald Hardwick Fulford , Royal Army Chaplains Department
Died 15 December 1916
Lives of the First World War