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 Charles James Spencer , Devonshire Regiment
Died 18 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Reginald Benjamin Featherstone , Devonshire Regiment
Died 18 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Reginald John (Roy) Brownfield , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Robert S Tate 544, Honourable Artillery Company
Died 18 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Bernard Henry Gilbert Shaw , West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
Died 18 December 1914
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Lieutenant Charles Randolph Innes Hopkins , Scottish Rifles
Died 18 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Henry Raymond Syndercombe Bower , South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 18 December 1914
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Lieutenant the Honble. Edward Charles Hardinge , Hussars
Died 18 December 1914
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Major Robert Henry Watkin Brewis , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 December 1914
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Private Clement Edmonds 6278, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 December 1914
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Private Edward Rogers 760, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 December 1914
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Private Henry Barnett 9614, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 December 1914
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Private Richard William Fisher 7899, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 December 1914
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Second Lieutenant Alan Robert Lloyd Tucker , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 December 1914
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Second Lieutenant Brabazon Campbell , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 December 1914
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Second Lieutenant George Bertram Monk , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 December 1914
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Second Lieutenant Richard Francis Robert Nugent , Scots Guards
Died 18 December 1914
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Temporary Major Hubert Charlton Rome , Duke of Cambridge's Own Infantry (Brownlow's Punjabis)
Died 18 December 1914
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Private Walter Bentham 10873, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 18 December 1915
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Sepoy Sher Gul 3483, 57th Wilde's Rifles (Frontier Force)
Died 18 December 1915
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Serjeant G Bowkett 3648, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 December 1915
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Munitions Worker Margaret Barker , Ministry of Munitions
Died 18 December 1916
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Nurse Alice Violet Hallam , Voluntary Aid Detachment
Died 18 December 1916
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Private Arthur E Oakes 3973, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 December 1916
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Private Herbert Wressell 17/2119, Royal Irish Rifles
Died 18 December 1916
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Sergeant Edwin Betony , York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 18 December 1916
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Serjeant Ernest Leonard Stelling 19560, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 18 December 1916
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Elizabeth Anne Phelan , Mercantile Marine - S.S. "Coningbeg" (Glasgow)
Died 18 December 1917
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Corporal Samuel Shannon 241916, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 December 1917
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Lieutenant John Bear , North Staffordshire Regiment
Died 18 December 1917
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Private Joseph Green 5502, British West Indies Regiment
Died 18 December 1917
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Private Percy Green 268875, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 December 1917
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Second Lieutenant Fred Tarlington Chapman , Royal Field Artillery
Died 18 December 1917
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Acting Colour Serjeant David Adam 3206, Highland Light Infantry
Died 18 December 1918
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Assistant Principal Evelyn Mary Mackintosh , Women's Royal Naval Service
Died 18 December 1918
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Private Herbert Harry Hurst S-18378, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Died 18 December 1918
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Sapper Frederick Sydney Albert Kemp 1098, Royal Engineers
Died 18 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel Baptiste Johnston Barton, DSO , Duke of Wellington’s Regiment
Died 18 December 1944
Lives of the First World War