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!
Second Lieutenant Harold F Marion-Crawford. Unit: Special Reserve, attached 2nd Battalion, Irish Guards. Death: 16 April 1915 Western Front
Died 16 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Robert Bruce Conduitt. Unit: 14th Battalion, London Regiment (London Scottish), attached to 1st Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. Death: 16 April 1915 Killed in action near Neuve Chapelle Western Front
Died 16 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Gunner Lindsay John Robert Macpherson 1910. Unit: 113th Howitzer Battery, 13th Brigade, Australian Field Artillery. Death: 16 April 1917 Western Front
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Henry Ellis. Unit: 17th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 16 April 1917 Western Front.
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Mary Nicholls, Women's Land Army. Accidentally killed on duty 16 April 1917.
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Mary Nicholls, Women's Land Army. Accidentally killed on duty 16 April 1917.
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Bernard Keogh 5126. Unit: D Company, 11th Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 16 April 1917 missing, Western Front.
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private George Percival Irwin G/16645. Unit: 20th Battalion, Royal Fusilliers. Death: 16 April 1917 Western Front. Son of James and Emily Irwin, of 78, Harleyford Rd., Kennington, London.
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private James Albert McNay 6328. Unit: 20th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 16 April 1917 Western Front
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Thomas Kelly 1232. Unit: 17th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 16 April 1917 Loincecourt, Western Front.
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Sgt Servante served with B Company. He died of wounds, aged 26, on 16 April 1917. Sgt Servante is buried at Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery.
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain Charles Leslie Foulds MC. Unit: 1st/7th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 16 April 1918, missing in action, Western Front.
Died 16 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Driver Sidney Woodbury 285. Unit: 4th Section, 5th Australian Machine Gun Company, 2nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 16 April 1918 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 16 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Frank Sharp 241859. Unit: 2nd Platoon, A Company, 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 16 April 1918 Missing
Died 16 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Lt Van Oppen enlisted in August 1914 and received his commission in September 1915, rising to the rank of lieutenant in July 1917. He was posted to the Western Front on 6 April 1918, was wounded on 12 April and died in hospital, aged 31, on 16 April 191
Died 16 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Miss Annie Adamson, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of sickness contracted in the service of the French Red Cross 16 April 1918.
Died 16 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private Alexander Grant 242147. Unit: "C" Company, 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 16 April 1918, Western Front. Commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial.
Died 16 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Frederick Cumber Baxter. Unit: C Company, 1st/7th Battalion (Leeds Rifles), West Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 16 April 1918.
Died 16 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Ernest George Weetman 2450. Unit: B Company, 43rd Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 16 April 1918 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 16 April 1918
Imperial War Museum