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!
Leonard Charles Ebers 1804, 9th London Regiment, Queen Victoria's Rifles
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Lionel John Neville Neville , Royal Engineers
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Philip Ernest Viney , Leicestershire Regiment
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Harold Walker 14783, South Lancashire Regiment
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Chamier Broughton , York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private John William Illingworth 5387, Scots Guards
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Basil Hamilton Woods , Royal Engineers
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Sidney Courthope Bosanquet , Middlesex Regiment
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Charles Arthur Wood L/5201, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Rupert Harold Gretton , Bedfordshire Regiment
Died 17 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private John Brookes 17291, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 17 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Robert Harold Winter , South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 17 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Curd Stinchcombe 120232, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 17 December 1916
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Sidney Nelson Farebrother 531395, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 17 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Ernest H Webley 266843, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 17 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Harry Parker 12367, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 17 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Kenneth Gerard Gurney , Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 17 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Charles Forbes Southcott 4/13, 4th Hampshire Regiment
Died 17 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Skipper Herbert Percy Fleet WSA 714, Royal Naval Reserve
Died 17 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Engineman Henry Walter Izzard TS 623, Royal Naval Reserve - HMS Pavlova
Died 17 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Acting Corporal Fitzgerald Baker 1078, British West Indies Regiment
Died 17 December 1919
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Frederick Dyer 38241, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 17 December 1919
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols , Royal Field Artillery
Died 17 December 1944
Lives of the First World War
Thomas Sampson , Lancers of the Line, 17th Lancers.
Died 17 December 1953
Lives of the First World War
Sergeant Lloyd Byer 931015, No.2 Construction Battalion
Died 17 December 1959
Lives of the First World War