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!
Thomas George Mills 23847, Wellington Infantry Regiment
Died 2 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
2nd Lieutenant George Trevor Hudson , Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 2 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Corporal John Wilfred Essex 11355, Leicestershire Regiment
Died 2 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Members of the 21st Reinforcements, 4th Light Horse Brigade about to depart on the troopship NESTOR
Taken 2 Oct 1916
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons
Private Charles Henry Mountstephen 15984, Devonshire Regiment
Died 2 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private George Alfred Bedley 5730/702461. Unit: 1st/23rd Battalion, London Regiment. Death: 2 October 1916, missing, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 2 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Hugh Aubrey Cockerton 2991, Cambridgeshire Regiment
Died 2 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Jabez Smith 14917, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 2 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Richard Kidd Palmer 20327, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died 2 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant John Chandler, M.C. , 9th (County of London) Regiment (St Pancras)
Died 2 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Serb Camp, Mikra Bay; Thirty-six Drawings of Salonika and Macedonia
2 October 1916
Imperial War Museum