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!
Bugler Milton Frank Thornton 91. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 May 1915 Killed in action Gallipoli/Dardanelles
Died 19 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Percy Beattie-Crozier. Unit: 4th Prince Albert Victor's Rajputs, attached to 15th Ludhiana Sikhs, Indian Army. Death: 19 May 1915 Killed in action near Neuve Chapelle Western Front
Died 19 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Thomas Ernest Dufty. Unit: 5th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 19 May 1915 Killed in action by shellfire near Ypres Western Front.
Died 19 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Albert Edward Charles Robert Wendover (Wynn-Carrington). Unit: Royal Horse Guards (The Blues). Death: 19 May 1915 Died in hospital at Boulogne, after being wounded on the 13 May 1915 at Hooge. Western Front
Died 19 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Wilfrid Robert Abel-Smith CMG. Unit: Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 19 May 1915 Died of wounds at Bethune after being wounded at Festubert on the 18 May 1915 Western Front
Died 19 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Frederick Crozier Fraser Biscoe MID. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 19 May 1915 Beune Hospital Western Front
Died 19 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant James Anderson Kerr Johnston. Unit: 7th Battalion (Victoria), Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 May 1915 Died of wounds in hospital in Cairo-wounded in early May at Cape Helles, Gallipoli.
Died 19 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant (Temporary) Thomas Fuller Stocker. Unit: 171st (Mining) Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 19 May 1915 Killed in action shot by a sniper while in the trenches near Ypres Western Front
Died 19 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Edward Humbert Fisher. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 19 May 1915, Festubert, Western Front.
Died 19 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant William Hills 108. Unit: 7th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 May 1915, killed in action at Cape Helles, Gallipoli, Dardanelles. Commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial.
Died 19 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Colonel William Renwick Marshall DSO MID. Unit: 15th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 19 May 1916 Western Front
Died 19 May 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private G D F Rogers 3004. Unit: B Company, 1st/4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Death: 19 May 1916 Missing 16 May 1916 Western Front
Died 19 May 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private James Garfield Alan Mitchell 806. Unit: D Company, 7th Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade, 1st Australian Division. Death: 19 May 1916 Western Front
Died 19 May 1916
Imperial War Museum
Flight Sub Lieutenant Geoffrey Glendinning Bowman. Unit: No 1 Squadron, Royal Naval Air Service, attached to Royal Flying Corps. Death: 19 May 1917
Died 19 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Arthur Cyril Gustave Hermges. Unit: 5th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, attached to the Royal Engineers. Death: 19 May 1917, missing in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Died 19 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Malcolm Wilfred Forester Hall. Unit: 5th Battalion, attached to the 1st Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Death: 19 May 1917, wounded and missing in action at Monchy, Western Front. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Died 19 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Rouson 30042. Unit: Border Regiment. Death: 19 May 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 19 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Thomas Walter Bennifer G/9260. Unit: 8th Battalion, The Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 19 May 1917 Sanctuary Wood Western Front. Son of Stephen and Finetta Bennifer, of 13, Sotheron Rd., Watford.
Died 19 May 1917
Imperial War Museum