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!
Corporal Charles Alfred Brook G/4146, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 20 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lance Sergeant George Newman 420097, Canadian Infantry
Died 20 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lance Serjeant William Fishlock 21350, Wiltshire Regiment
Died 20 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Geoffrey Stephen Walley. Unit: 5th Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 20 August 1916 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Geoffrey Stephen Walley. Unit: 5th Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 20 August 1916 Western Front
Died 20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Andrew Thomas Day 8/3889, Otago Infantry Regiment
Died 20 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur Smith 17832, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 20 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Ernest Ellis 5096, British West Indies Regiment
Died 20 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick James Stevens 22824, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Died 20 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick John Thompson 3959. Unit: 6th Battalion, Australian Expeditionary Force. Death: 20 August 1916 Died of wounds at 3 Casualty Clearing St ation Western Front
Died 20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private George Grant Geddes Angus 4127. Unit: D Company, 1st Pioneer Battalion, 1st Australian Division, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 20 August 1916 Western Front
Died 20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Norman John McLeod 3395. Unit: 14th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 20 August 1916 Western Front
Died 20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Walter James 19421, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Died 20 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private William Best 1647, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 20 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Ernest Farrar R/19527, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 20 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Frank Sheard R/19748, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 20 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Nevill Lindsay Young , Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 20 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Nevill Lindsay Young. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Death: 20 August 1916 at the Battle of the Somme Western Front
Died 20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum