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!
Colour Serjeant Edward Davies 2717, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 17 July 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Robert Clegg Hutchinson 22874, Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 17 July 1915
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Captain Robert Hugh Wade-Gery , Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 17 July 1916
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Lieutenant Alexander Douglas Anderson , Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 17 July 1916
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Private Alfred Collins 6090, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 17 July 1916
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Private Arthur Herbert Eves 2622TF, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 17 July 1916
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Private Cyril Leather 12/1727, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 17 July 1916
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Private Joseph William Cockroft 6015, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 17 July 1916
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Private Thomas George Richardson 22079, Bedfordshire Regiment
Died 17 July 1916
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Private Walter Phillip Bentley 14461, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 17 July 1916
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Private Walter Turnbull 28100, Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 17 July 1916
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Rifleman Sidney Hamlyn Radcliffe 3085, 16th Battalion London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles)
Died 17 July 1916
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Second Lieutenant William Andrew Turnbull , Yorkshire Regiment
Died 17 July 1916
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Gunner George William Burton 19574, 7th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 17 July 1917
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Gunner James Donald Sutherland Munro 150, 1st Field Artillery Brigade
Died 17 July 1917
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Lance Corporal Eric Robson Morris 532589, 15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 17 July 1917
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Lance Corporal Ernest Roskell 13448, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
Died 17 July 1917
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Lance Corporal Reginald Williams 10408, South Wales Borderers
Died 17 July 1917
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Private Arthur G Oliver R/18009, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 17 July 1917
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Private Henry Blake GS/4074, 6th Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 17 July 1917
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Private Joseph Welch 116334, 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion
Died 17 July 1917
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Private Thomas Edward Marriott 2887, Manchester Regiment
Died 17 July 1917
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Arthur Henry Francis Smith 1996, Royal Marine Light Infantry: Chatham Division
Died 17 July 1918
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Lieutenant Colonel Percy Edward Leahy , York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 17 July 1918
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Private Amar Calliste 6440, British West Indies Regiment
Died 17 July 1918
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Private Edwin Dalton Potter 106860, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 17 July 1918
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Private John James Sawyer 35832, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 17 July 1918
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Sapper Samuel Boulton Bourne WR/269519, Royal Engineers
Died 17 July 1918
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Private Francis William Evans 7793, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 17 July 1919
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Private Frederick Robert Hooper G/20613, Middlesex Regiment
Died 17 July 1919
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Company Sergeant Major Thomas Arthur Bartram 4736214, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 17 July 1921
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Private Charles Melvin VC 871, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Died 17 July 1941
Lives of the First World War