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!
Dudley Leycester Summerhays , 9th London Regiment, Queen Victoria's Rifles
Died 21 April 1915
Lives of the First World War
Captain Gilbert Basil Jocelyn Fazakerley-Westby , 9th London Queen Victoria's Rifles
Died 21 April 1915
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Edgar Stanley Carpenter 1494, London Regiment
Died 21 April 1915
Lives of the First World War
Major Thomas Prior Lees , 9th London Regiment Queen Victoria's Rifles
Died 21 April 1915
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Rifleman George Harold Clegg C/234, Kings Royal Rifles Corps
Died 21 April 1915
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Corporal John Coxall 7682, King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Died 21 April 1916
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Driver Charles Rupert Lewis Skinner 101947, Royal Field Artillery
Died 21 April 1916
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Private Charles Leslie Evans , KIng's Liverpool Regiment
Died 21 April 1916
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Private Charles Lockwood 18606, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 21 April 1916
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Private George Horton 18196, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 21 April 1916
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Private James Edward Thompson 1234, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 21 April 1916
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Private John A Hill 23065, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 21 April 1916
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Private Percival Wood 22853, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 21 April 1916
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Ruth Holden , Millicent Garrett Fawcett Maternity Unit
Died 21 April 1917
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Able Seaman Christopher Frank Samways J24972, HMS Broke
Died 21 April 1917
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Corporal Alfred Gyde Heaven, M.M. 703871, Canadian Infantry
Died 21 April 1917
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Corporal Clifford Charles Godwin 12161, Royal Engineers
Died 21 April 1917
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Lieutenant Juan Manuel Aldana , Worcestershire Regiment
Died 21 April 1917
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Private Arthur Gibbons 22683, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 21 April 1917
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Private Arthur Littlewood 32181, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 21 April 1917
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Private Arthur Welch 9752, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 21 April 1917
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Private Firth Jackson 24011, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 21 April 1917
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Private Hamby Scott 34152, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 21 April 1917
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Private Horace Leonard 200240, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 21 April 1917
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Private John James Dixon 3/36257, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 21 April 1917
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Private William Ball 201983, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 21 April 1917
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Private William Bean 25972, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 21 April 1917
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Private William Huntington Shaw 56374, The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Died 21 April 1917
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Stoker 1st Class Epton Bellamy K/27872, H.M.S. "Broke."
Died 21 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Boatswain J Johnson , Mercantile Marine - S.S. "Landonia" (London)
Died 21 April 1918
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Carpenter D Belgrave , Mercantile Marine - S.S. "Landonia" (London)
Died 21 April 1918
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Gunner Charles George Batts 163036, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 21 April 1918
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Lieutenant Norman Newton Caton , Royal Field Artillery
Died 21 April 1918
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Lieutenant Norman Newton Caton MC , Royal Field Artillery
Died 21 April 1918
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Nursing Sister Anna Elizabeth Whitely , Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 21 April 1918
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Private Cecil Clifford Capell 34404, Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 21 April 1918
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Private Sydney Allan Matchett 793280, Canadian Infantry
Died 21 April 1918
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Private Walter Richard Turner 1423, King Edward's Horse
Died 21 April 1918
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Rifleman William James Collins 370900, London Regiment
Died 21 April 1918
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Sapper Reginald Harry Tannebring 15085, Australian Engineers
Died 21 April 1918
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Second Lieutenant David John George Watkins , South Wales Borderers
Died 21 April 1918
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Able Seaman George Simeon Ernest Stansfield J/93754(Dev.), H.M.S. "Vivid."
Died 21 April 1921
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Leading Stoker Edward James Samuel Coppard 305675, HMS MALAYA
Died 21 April 1928
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Able Seaman Henry John Gillard 8517, HMS Vindictive - Seamen Storming Party, "A" Company
Died 21 April 1941
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Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey Heneage Drummond VC , Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve
Died 21 April 1941
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John Maynard Keynes , Treasury Department of the Civil Service
Died 21 April 1946
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Gunner Thomas Gowland Clarke Reed 84909, Royal Field Artillery
Died 21 April 1951
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