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!
Captain Arthur Montagu Rundall. Unit: 1st/4th Battalion, 4th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army. Death: 20 December 1914 Festubert Western Front
Died 20 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Barrington Hope Baird. Unit: 1st Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 20 December 1914 Fesubert-Givenchy Western Front
Died 20 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Cecil David Woodburn Bamberger. Unit: Royal Engineers, 7th (Meerut) Division, Indian Army. Death: 20 December 1914 Western Front
Died 20 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Charles Henry Murray St. Clair. Unit: 1st Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders (Rosshire Buffs, The Duke of Albany’s). Death: 20 December 1914 Killed in action in the trenches near La Bassee in the North of France Western Front
Died 20 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Henry Ironside Money MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, 1st King Georges Own Gurkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment). Death: 20 December 1914 Western Front
Died 20 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Jestyn Llewellyn Mansel. Unit: 7th Dragoon Guards (Princess Royals). Death: 20 December 1914 Western Front
Died 20 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Leo Creagh. Unit: C Company, 1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Death: 20 December 1914 to 21 December 1914 Killed in action near Givenchy Western Front
Died 20 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Malcolm Arthur Russell Bell. Unit: 54th Sikhs (Frontier Force), Indian Army. Death: 20 December 1914 Western Front
Died 20 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Robert Charles Byam Yates. Unit: ECompany, 1st Battalion, 4th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Contingent. Death: 20 December 1914 Missing at Givenchy 20th December 1914 aged 36 Western Front
Died 20 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Wilfred Picton-Warlow. Unit: Welsh Regiment and Flight Commander, Royal Flying Corps, Military Wing. Death: 20 December 1914 Missing Western Front
Died 20 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain William Henry Veitch Cameron. Unit: 1st Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 20 December 1914 Killed in action near Festubert Western Front. Son of Sir Ewen Cameron, K.C.M.G., and Lady Cameron.
Died 20 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Harold Augustus Rupert Tooley. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Guernsey Militia (Light Infantry), attached 2nd Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment. Death: 20 December 1914 Missing in action Western Front
Died 20 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Henry Raymond Syndercombe Bower. Unit: 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 20 December 1914 Western Front
Died 20 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Roger Ludovic Moore MID. Unit: 1st Battalion Prince Alberts (Somerset Light Infantry). Death: 20 December 1914 Flanders Western Front shot in the spine while visiting his sentries
Died 20 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Alec Gardiner. Unit: Royal Engineers. Death: 20 December 1914, Givenchy, Western Front. Commemorated on the La Touret Memorial.
Died 20 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major H W R Potter. Unit: 129th Duke of Connaught’s Baluchis, Indian Contingent. Death: 20 December 1914 Missing
Died 20 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Thomas Francis Murray. Unit: 1st Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 20 December 1914 Missing at Festubert-Givenchy Western Front
Died 20 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Edward Gearey. Unit: 1st Battalion, Cameron Highlanders, attached to the 1st Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 20 December 1914, Festubert, Western Front. Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial.
Died 20 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Gerard Ribton Gore. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Death: 20 December 1914, Western Front.
Died 20 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Sebright Edward Coffin. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots. Death: 20 December 1915 Killed in action Western Front
Died 20 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
20 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
20 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
20 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
20 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
20 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
20 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
20 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
20 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
20 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
20 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Lionel George D'Arcy. Unit: Connaught Rangers, attached to 18th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 20 December 1916 Missing in action with Sub-Lieutenant Reginald Cuthbert Whiteside RFC.
Died 20 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain William A G Stevenson MID. Unit: 14th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 20 December 1917 Missing in action Western Front.
Died 20 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Gertrude Mary Powicke, Friends' War Victims Relief Committee. Died of typhus in Warsaw 20 December 1919.
Died 20 December 1919
Imperial War Museum
Gertrude Mary Powicke, Friends' War Victims Relief Committee. Died of typhus in Warsaw 20 December 1919.
Died 20 December 1919
Imperial War Museum
Senator Colonel Auguste Charles Philippe Robert Landry BA. Unit: Speaker of the Senate, Canada. Death: 20 December 1919.
Died 20 December 1919
Imperial War Museum
Artur A van Dobschutz, Dutch Prisoner of War, Singapore, 20 December 1942
20 December 1942
Imperial War Museum