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 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
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
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 , 9th London Regiment Queen Victoria's Rifles
Died 21 April 1915
Lives of the First World War
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
Rifleman George Harold Clegg C/234, Kings Royal Rifles Corps
Died 21 April 1915
Lives of the First World War