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!
Lieutenant The Hon Arthur George Coke , Royal Naval Air Service
Died 21 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Henry Kind 519, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 21 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick Francis Barnes 19991, Canadian Infantry
Died 21 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Curwen Vaughan Rawlinson , Dorsetshire Regiment
Died 21 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Company Serjeant Major Frank The Kaffir Howett 412, London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 21 May 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lance Serjeant Archibald John Andrews 530016, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 21 May 1916
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Lance-Corporal George Eric Dixon Westcombe 530022, 15th London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 21 May 1916
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Lieutenant Bernard Scott , London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 21 May 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Richard Basil Brandram Jones VC , The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 21 May 1916
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Private Alun Rawson Williams 26070, Royal Welsh Fusilers
Died 21 May 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur Illtyd Pritchard 3888, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 21 May 1916
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Private Charles Herbert Spurge 3892, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 21 May 1916
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Private Herbert William Dexter 21096, Leicestershire Regiment
Died 21 May 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Noel Francis Coakeley 3085, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 21 May 1916
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Private William Thomas Messenger 531695, London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 21 May 1916
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Rifleman Albert Edward Harris 371833, 8 London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)
Died 21 May 1916
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Rifleman Henry William Simmonds 1685, 320293, London Regiment
Died 21 May 1916
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Rifleman Victor Papworth 371945, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)
Died 21 May 1916
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Sapper Henry William George Cridge 94255, Royal Engineers
Died 21 May 1916
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Serjeant Stanley George Watts 2072, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 21 May 1916
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Captain Arthur Hugh Bales Chaplin , Cambridgeshire Regiment
Died 21 May 1917
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Corporal Alexander Thornton Grimes 320955, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 21 May 1917
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Corporal Harold Robert Edgar Potter 320700, London Regiment
Died 21 May 1917
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Private Charles Thomas Evans 321852, 6th Battalion London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 21 May 1917
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Private George Henry Gubbins 20951, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 21 May 1917
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Private William Ambrose Camplin 241253, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 21 May 1917
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Private William George Goldingay 8419, 2nd Worcestershire Regiment
Died 21 May 1917
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Rifleman Albert Gerard Ambrose 320725, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 21 May 1917
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Rifleman Alfred James Foley 323356, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 21 May 1917
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Rifleman Arthur Franklin Postle 5218, 322417, London Regiment
Died 21 May 1917
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Rifleman Christopher John Spink 322425, London Regiment
Died 21 May 1917
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Rifleman Ernest Carpenter 323619, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 21 May 1917
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Rifleman Frank Squire Cousins 321985, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 21 May 1917
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Rifleman Frank Thomas Pead 322392, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 21 May 1917
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Rifleman Frederick Samuel Cook 322257, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 21 May 1917
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Rifleman George Patterson 321750, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 21 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman John Albert Darvell 322182, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 21 May 1917
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Rifleman John George C Collett 323979, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 21 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Joseph Ehrenberg 322404, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 21 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Percy Alfred Gardner 322297, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 21 May 1917
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Rifleman Percy William Brown 5256, 322448, London Regiment
Died 21 May 1917
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Rifleman Sidney George Gunning 5236, 322430, London Regiment
Died 21 May 1917
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Rifleman Thomas Albert Victor Alderton 323694, London Regiment
Died 21 May 1917
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Rifleman William Frederick Childs 323577, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 21 May 1917
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Rifleman William George Chaplin 321888, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 21 May 1917
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Second Lieutenant Colin Miller Jamieson , 15th London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 21 May 1917
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Second Lieutenant Harold Oswald Monro , Highland Light Infantry
Died 21 May 1917
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Second Lieutenant Hubert Eric Coldicott , London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 21 May 1917
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Second Lieutenant Russell Frank Clarke , London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 21 May 1917
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Serjeant Charles Standish 240770, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 21 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Nursing Sister Gladys Maude Mary Wake , Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 21 May 1918
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Private Harold William Payne 19076, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 21 May 1918
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Private Hubert Smith 38765, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 21 May 1918
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Second Lieutenant Leonard Charles Hornabrook , Leicestershire Regiment
Died 21 May 1918
Lives of the First World War
Engineman Michael Sleeman U 1234, Royal Naval Reserve - HMS Queen
Died 21 May 1920
Lives of the First World War
Private William John 16810, British West Indies Regiment
Died 21 May 1920
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Acting Major Alfred Ernest Albert Harragin, D.S.O. , British West Indies Regiment
Died 21 May 1941
Lives of the First World War
Temporary Lieutenant Colonel John Vaughan Campbell VC , Coldstream Guards
Died 21 May 1944
Lives of the First World War
Sergeant Alfred Joseph Richards VC 1293, Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 21 May 1953
Lives of the First World War