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!
Acting Corporal George Williams 10526, East Lancashire Regiment
Died 19 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
BRITISH LIGHT CRUISER FALMOUTH SINKING IN THE NORTH SEA AFTER BEING ATTACKED BY A GERMAN SUBMARINE.
19 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Frank Waker Harris. Unit: 5th Battalion, attached to the 57th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 August 1916, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 19 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Herbert Townsing 3853, 4th Australian Pioneers
Died 19 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Percy David Mansfield 4256. Unit: 7th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 August 1916 Western Front
Died 19 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Francis Blake Cameron , Cameron Highlanders
Died 19 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Allan Edmund Betts 1810. Unit: 4th Reinforcements, 12th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 August 1916, Western Front.
Died 19 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Cecil Vere Bynoe 10856, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 19 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Wood 18682, King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Died 19 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Claude William Brown 2784. Unit: 6th Battalion, 2nd Brigade, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 August 1916, Pozieres, Somme, Western Front.
Died 19 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Edward Maldwyn Jones 37105, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 19 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private George Turner 6857, North Staffordshire Regiment
Died 19 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Harry John Williams. Unit: 12th Battalion (late 7th Reinforcements to 26th Battalion), Australian Infantry. Death: 19 August 1916 Reported ‘Missing’. Officially reported killed Jul 1917 Western Front
Died 19 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Michael John Hogan 200324, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 19 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Glyn Gough Williams 40044, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 19 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Victor Steward Hope 3546A. Unit: 6th Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 August 1916, missing in action at Pozieres, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 19 August 1916
Imperial War Museum