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 Duncan Gillies Forbes MacBean. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 18 June 1915 Festubert Western Front
Died 18 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lady Lelia Samuelson, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of illness contracted on duty 18 June 1915.
Died 18 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lady Lelia Samuelson, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of illness contracted on duty 18 June 1915.
Died 18 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Frederick Hamilton Deighton. Unit: 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. Death: 18 June 1915 Wounded 4 June 1915 at Gallipoli died in hospital in Malta Gallipoli. Son of Hamilton Deighton, of The Highlands, Elmenteita, Kenya.
Died 18 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Lionel Cox Harding. Unit: 5th Mountain Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 18 June 1915, died of wounds, Western Front.
Died 18 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Reginald Rapp. Unit: 7th Battalion, The Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment). Death: 18 June 1915 Fleurbaix Western Front
Died 18 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Major William Archibald. Unit: 2nd Lowland Field Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 18 June 1915 Gallipoli Dardanelles
Died 18 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Oscar William Pocklington-Senhouse. Unit: Special Reserve, attached to 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 18 June 1915 Killed in action near La Bassee. Western Front
Died 18 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lt Vernon was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry during the Battle of the Somme in August 1916. He was killed in action near Wancourt on 18 June 1917. Lt Vernon is buried at Feuchy Chapel British Cemetery, Wancourt.
Died 18 June 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Arthur Rawcliffe 3450. Unit: 78th Service Company (York), Army Ordnance Corps. Death: 18 June 1917 Buried Accrington
Died 18 June 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Maximilian Keizer. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Served in France from 18 June 1917. Death: Not known.
Died 18 June 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Frederick William Ford 37974/89564. Unit: 12th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, transferred to the 150th Company, Labour Corps. Death: 18 June 1918, Britain.
Died 18 June 1918
Imperial War Museum
Rifleman Frederick Charles Mill 532150. Unit: 15th Battalion, (Prince of Wales Own Civil Service Rifles), London Regiment. Death: 18 June 1918 Western Front
Died 18 June 1918
Imperial War Museum