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!
Captain Eric Guy Harries , 7th Royal Welsh Fusiliers Territorial Force
Died 17 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private George William Edmund Jesson 2895, Leicestershire Regiment
Died 17 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Albert Frank Dracup 3026, Bedfordshire Regiment
Died 17 August 1915
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Serjeant Charles William Hopton 17627, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 17 August 1915
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Serjeant Herbert McGovan 12203, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 17 August 1915
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Captain William Manstead Benton , Manchester Regiment
Died 17 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Harold Machin P/1255, Military Police Corps
Died 17 August 1916
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Private Ebenezer Nicholls 6990, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 17 August 1916
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Private Frederick Thomas Purcell 16638, Northamptonshire Regiment
Died 17 August 1916
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Private George Dennett Criddle 13193, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 17 August 1916
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Private Richard Mitchell SD/441, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 17 August 1916
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Private Thomas Henry Mumford 23058, Northamptonshire Regiment
Died 17 August 1916
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Private William Reginald Staplehurst G/8708, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 17 August 1916
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Private Willie Henry Page 3196, Royal Sussex Regiment,
Died 17 August 1916
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Sapper James Edward Worthington 45607, Royal Engineers
Died 17 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Norman Archibald Chambers , Northamptonshire Regiment
Died 17 August 1916
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Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class The Reverend Father William Joseph Gabriel Doyle, SJ, M.C. , Army Chaplains' Department, attached Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Died 17 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Chaplain William Joseph Doyle , Army Chaplain's Department
Died 17 August 1917
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Lieutenant Wilmore Lorne Carmichael , Canadian Infantry
Died 17 August 1917
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Private Archibald Thomas Callaway 29236, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 17 August 1917
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Private Charles Douglas Hamlyn Yonge 727779, Canadian Infantry Eastern Ontario Regiment
Died 17 August 1917
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Private Charles Samuel Stiff 240982, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 17 August 1917
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Private Frank Dawson Onslow 19873, Dorsetshire Regiment
Died 17 August 1917
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Private William Blacker 40488, Worcestershire Regiment
Died 17 August 1917
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Second Lieutenant Peter Robertson Purdie , Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 17 August 1917
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Second Lieutenant Richard Douglas Miles, M.C. , Royal Irish Fusiliers
Died 17 August 1917
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Serjeant Edward George Joines 12614, Royal Field Artillery
Died 17 August 1917
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Private Allen Hilton 14/619, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 17 August 1918
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Private Blackden Kennedy Saunders 2356605, Canadian Forestry Corps
Died 17 August 1918
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Private Edwin Hollingsworth 39885, Wiltshire Regiment
Died 17 August 1918
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Private George Wain 16250, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 17 August 1918
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Private Rowland Howard Poole 36123, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 17 August 1918
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Private Walter John Clifford 40296, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 17 August 1918
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Lieutenant General David Henderson , Royal Flying Corps
Died 17 August 1921
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas William Bedford 4335295, East Yorkshire Regiment
Died 17 August 1921
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Corporal George Stacey Fudge 5842, 1st Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 17 August 1960
Lives of the First World War