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 Alexander Findlater Todd. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached 1st Battalion, The Norfold Regiment. Death: 21 April 1915 Died of wounds Western Front
Died 21 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant (Temproary) Ernest Stratford MRCS LRCP. Unit: Royal Army Medical Corps. Death: 21 April 1915 Died of blood poisoning after being wounded at Neuve Chapelle on the 17 March 1915. Western Front
Died 21 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant John Boyer Webb. Unit: 5th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 21 April 1915 Killed in Action on Hill 60 near Ypres Western Front
Died 21 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Major (Temporary Lieutenant Colonel) Walter Herbert Paterson. Unit: 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. Death: 21 April 1915 Western Front
Died 21 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Major Thomas prior Lees. Unit: 1st/9th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles). Death: 21 April 1915 Hill 60 Western Front
Died 21 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Maxwell Green 2168. Unit: No. 1 Company, Honourable Artillery Company. Death: 21 April 1915, Ypres, Western Front.
Died 21 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Ronald Marmaduke Dawnay Harvey. Unit: 4th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, attached to the 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 21 April 1915, killed in action by a shell during attack on Hill 60, Ypres, Western Front.
Died 21 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Charles Piper Hazard. Unit: 1st Battalion, Shropshire Light Infantry. Death: 21 April 1916, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 21 April 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Harold Abell 173. Unit: 9th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 21 April 1916 Western Front
Died 21 April 1916
Imperial War Museum
Able Seaman Joe Watson Bagnall J/17789. Unit: Royal Navy, HMS Broke. Death: 21 April 1917 At Sea Off Dover
Died 21 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Leonard A Aldvey. Unit: 7th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 21 April 1917 Western Front
Died 21 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private George Barnett 32273. Unit: 1st Platoon, A Company, 10th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment. Death: 21 April 1917
Died 21 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Ruth Holden, Millicent Garrett Fawcett Maternity Unit. Died of typhoid fever in Kazan 21 April 1917.
Died 21 April 1917
Imperial War Museum