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 , 2nd Worcestershire Regiment
Died 19 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
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
Petty Officer 2nd Class George Dann 146362, H.M.S. "Amethyst"
Died 19 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Pont du « sanctuaire japonais » dans son environnement arboré, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, B 483
19 mai 1915
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Private Charles Samuel George 10971, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 19 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Francis Clement Connory 8220, Royal Irish Regiment
Died 19 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Francis George Keeling 3038, Leicestershire Regiment
Died 19 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick 202, Australian Army Medical Corps
Died 19 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Richard Stanley Butler 2653, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
Died 19 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Henry 10191, The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Died 19 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
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