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!
Acting Corporal Harold Newton Cudlipp 8785, South Wales Borderers
Died 21 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Acting Serjeant Michael Nugent 14271, South Wales Borderers
Died 21 December 1914
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Captain Alan Moir Graham. Unit: 5th Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force), attached to the 1st Battalion, then to the 2nd Battalion, King Edward's Own Gurkha Rifles (Sirmoor Rifles). Death: 21 December 1914, Festubert, Western Front. Commemorated on the Neuve-Ch
Died 21 December 1914
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Captain Charles Alexander Chandos Mackenzie. Unit: 20th Deccan Horse, Indian Army. Death: 21 December 1914 Missing Western Front
Died 21 December 1914
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Captain David Inglis. Unit: Adjutant, 1/4th Battalion, 4th Gurkha Rifles. Death: 21 December 1914 Western Front. Son of the late Robert Inglis, of Lovestone, Girvan, Ayrshire.
Died 21 December 1914
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Captain James Stewart McEuen. Unit: 20th Deccan Horse. Death: 21 December 1914 Festubert Western Front
Died 21 December 1914
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Captain Walter Penrose Pritchett. Unit: 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 21 December 1914 Western Front
Died 21 December 1914
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Captain William Hamilton Padday. Unit: 36th Sikhs, attached to 47th Sikhs. Death: 21 December 1914 Western Front
Died 21 December 1914
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Corporal Joseph Gorman 13345, South Wales Borderers
Died 21 December 1914
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Lance Corporal Clement Beddoes 3/10381, South Wales Borderers (Special Reserve)
Died 21 December 1914
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Lance Corporal Colin McRae 200145, Seaforth Highlanders
Died 21 December 1914
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Lieutenant Alexander Dewar MID. Unit: Royal Engineers (Special Reserve). Death: 21 December 1914 Died of wounds Western Front. Son of John and Charlotte Dewar, of Villa Rosa, Trinity, Edinburgh.
Died 21 December 1914
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Lieutenant Cecil Mortimer Pitts Tucker , Highland Light Infantry
Died 21 December 1914
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Lieutenant Cecil Mortimer Pitts-Tucker. Unit: 1st Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 21 December 1914 Western Front
Died 21 December 1914
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Lieutenant Colonel Henry Charles Pilleau DSO MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 21 December 1914 Western Front
Died 21 December 1914
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Lieutenant Ernest Haddon Owen. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers. Death: 21 December 1914 Western Front
Died 21 December 1914
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Claude Langdale Ottley DSO MID. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 21 December 1914 Western Front
Died 21 December 1914
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Claude Langdale Ottley, D.S.O. , 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards
Died 21 December 1914
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Montagu Bradley , Rifle Brigade
Died 21 December 1914
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Lieutenant Hillyar George Edwin Hill-Trevor , 1st Battalion, Scots Guards
Died 21 December 1914
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Lieutenant Hubert Raynsford Gordon Kerr. Unit: 1st Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 21 December 1914 Western Front.
Died 21 December 1914
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Lieutenant James Francis O’Brien. Unit: 1st Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 21 December 1914 La Bassee France Western Front
Died 21 December 1914
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Lieutenant James Thomas Robinson Pastfield , Middlesex Regiment
Died 21 December 1914
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Lieutenant Thomas Edward Doncaster Dunn. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Death: 21 December 1914 Died of wounds Western Front.
Died 21 December 1914
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Major Charles Buxton Loring , 37th Lancers (Baluch Horse)
Died 21 December 1914
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Major Charles Buxton Loring. Unit: 37th Lancers (Baluch Horse), attached Poona Horse. Death: 21 December 1914 Givenchy Western Front
Died 21 December 1914
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Major Edmund Peel Thomson , Royal Munster Fusiliers
Died 21 December 1914
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Major Reginald Garret Cooper King , West Yorkshire Regiment
Died 21 December 1914
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Major Reginald Garret Cooper-King. Unit: 2nd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own). Death: 21 December 1914 Died of wounds Western Front. Son of Lt. Col. Charles Cooper-King and Harriet Cooper-King, of Camberley, Surrey.
Died 21 December 1914
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Private Alfred Sadler 9844, Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 21 December 1914
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Private Alfred Seacombe 3/11601, South Wales Borderers (Special Reserve)
Died 21 December 1914
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Private Charles Henry Boyle 11157, South Wales Borderers
Died 21 December 1914
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Private Daniel Morgan Evans 14878, South Wales Borderers
Died 21 December 1914
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Private David John Phillips 11204, South Wales Borderers
Died 21 December 1914
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Private David Williams 13131, South Wales Borderers
Died 21 December 1914
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Private Frederick Gale 13001, South Wales Borderers
Died 21 December 1914
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Private Frederick Lewis 13229, South Wales Borderers
Died 21 December 1914
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Private George Gettings 11105, South Wales Borderers
Died 21 December 1914
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Private John Charles Abell 13025, South Wales Borderers
Died 21 December 1914
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Private Richard Costin 13095, South Wales Borderers
Died 21 December 1914
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Private William Bath 3/10983, South Wales Borderers (Special Reserve)
Died 21 December 1914
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Private William John Woodman 9187, South Wales Borderers
Died 21 December 1914
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Private William Watkins 13334, South Wales Borderers
Died 21 December 1914
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Second Lieutenant Bernard Frederick Paul Bernard , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 21 December 1914
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Second Lieutenant E Maitland. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, attached 2nd Battalion, The Black Watch. Death: 21 December 1914 Western Front
Died 21 December 1914
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Second Lieutenant Ernest Haddon Owen , Lincolnshire Regiment attached South Wales Borderers
Died 21 December 1914
Lives of the First World War