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!
Gunner Ambrose Richard Alick 690, Bermuda Militia Artillery
Died 17 February 1915
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Charles Wentford Dill 245, Bermuda Militia Artillery
Died 17 February 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Tapner 9293, East Yorkshire Regiment
Died 17 February 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick Thomas Ellis M2/034181, Army Service Corps
Died 17 February 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Maurice James Banister , Loyal North Lancashire
Died 17 February 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Hapi Christie 16/567, New Zealand 1st Maori Contingent B Company
Died 17 February 1916
Lives of the First World War
Able Seaman James Francis Archer Mersey Z/34, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Died 17 February 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Harold Leonard Perkins R 2845, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 17 February 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Richard Louis Whittington Bartlett GS/51986, Royal Fusiliers
Died 17 February 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Alfred E Fulcher 8956, Shropshire Light Infantry
Died 17 February 1917
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Private David Hamilton Lawrence 3220, Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
Died 17 February 1917
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Private Ernest William Powell 16053, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 17 February 1917
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Private Francis Charles Williams 28527, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 17 February 1917
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Private George John Gatward 11054, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Died 17 February 1917
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Private Oswald Gregory Worlidge G/40055, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
Died 17 February 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Reginald Charles Crewes G/40139, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
Died 17 February 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Robert Marchant GS/27841, Royal Fusiliers
Died 17 February 1917
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Second Lieutenant Clarence Carpenter , Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Died 17 February 1917
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Second Lieutenant James Babington Boulton , Northamptonshire Regiment
Died 17 February 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant John Carlton Manning , Cheshire Regiment
Died 17 February 1917
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Second Lieutenant Tom Freeman , Northamptonshire Regiment
Died 17 February 1917
Lives of the First World War
Sergeant Edward Josselyn Hallum 51982, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Died 17 February 1917
Lives of the First World War
Sergeant William Henry Laverty 1218, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 17 February 1917
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Temporary 2nd Lieutenant Alan Amery Okell , The Royal Marine Light Infantry
Died 17 February 1917
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Private Ernest Horler 46127, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
Died 17 February 1918
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Private Florence McCarthy 7486, South Wales Borderers
Died 17 February 1918
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Private Harry Penn 24671, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 17 February 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Josias Pascal 16590, British West Indies Regiment
Died 17 February 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Francis Bernard Evans , Royal Flying Corps
Died 17 February 1918
Lives of the First World War
Able Seaman James Chawner Bristol Z/4441, Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve
Died 17 February 1919
Lives of the First World War
Captain William Maurice Crombie , Indian Medical Service
Died 17 February 1919
Lives of the First World War
Driver Albert Edward Bull 10356, Royal Field Artillery
Died 17 February 1919
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Reginald Rudolph Turnbull 6388, West India Regiment
Died 17 February 1919
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Lance Corporal Thomas Thorne 28028, Devonshire Regiment
Died 17 February 1919
Lives of the First World War
Private Ephraim Jordan 53246, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 17 February 1919
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Private Ferdinand Clarke 13624, British West Indies Regiment
Died 17 February 1919
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Albert Enos Dyer, M.M. and Two Bars 48248, 70th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Died 17 February 1919
Lives of the First World War
Regimental Sergeant Major Abraham Naden 23473, North Staffordshire Regiment
Died 17 February 1920
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Maurice Woodward F/316, Middlesex Regiment
Died 17 February 1950
Lives of the First World War
Colonel Sir Henry Gilbertson-Smith CB OBE MC TD DL , 25th London Regiment
Died 17 February 1958
Lives of the First World War
Doctor Mary Alice Blair , Scottish Women's Hospitals [ French Red Cross ]
Died 17 February 1962
Lives of the First World War