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 Hugh Richard Augustin Whytehead MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, 6th Gurkha Rifles. Death: 22 May 1915 Killed in Action at Gurkha Bluff recapturing a trench. Gallipoli
Died 22 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Ian Henry Baillie. Unit: 4th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. Death: 22 May 1915 Of wounds Rouen Western Front
Died 22 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant (Temporary) William Millar Warne. Unit: 7th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 22 May 1915 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 22 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Arthur Alexander Heyland. Unit: 2nd Battalion, 5th Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force), attached to the 2nd Battalion, 1st King George's Own Gurkha Rifles (Malaun Regiment), Indian Army. Death: 22 May 1915, lilled in action, Western Front. Commemora
Died 22 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Edmund John Macrory Robertson MID. Unit: 70th Battery, 34th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 22 May 1915 Festubert Western Front
Died 22 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant John Newington. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. Death: 22 May 1915 Killed in action Western Front
Died 22 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Major Hugh Eliott Moule. Unit: 1st Battalion, 4th Ghurka Rifles. Death: 22 May 1915 Missing at Ferme de Bois Western Front
Died 22 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Eric Godfrey Hodgson. Unit: Indian Army Reserve of Officers, attached to the 40th Pathans, Indian Army. Death: 22 May 1915, died of wounds received on the 18 May 1915 in the trenches at Neuve Chapelle, Western Front.
Died 22 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Francis Allan Ballinger. Unit: 4th Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 21 to 22 May 1915 Bois de Biez Western Front
Died 22 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Richard Sumner Gamble. Unit: 7th Battalion, attached to the 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment and then to the 1st King George's Own Gurkha Rifles (Malaun Regiment), Indian Army. Death: 22 May 1915, Ferme du Bois, Western Front. Com
Died 22 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Hobart Brooks Farquhar. Unit: 15th Battalion, London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles). Death: 22 May 1916, missing at Vimy Ridge, Western Front.
Died 22 May 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lance Sergeant Archibald John Andrews 1189/530016. Unit: B Company, 1st/15th Battalion, London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles). Death: 22 May 1916 Vimy Ridge Western Front
Died 22 May 1916
Imperial War Museum
Miss Constance M Johnson, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of illness contracted on duty 22 May 1916.
Died 22 May 1916
Imperial War Museum
Rifleman Fred Slater 3646/371441. Unit: 1st/8th Battalion, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles). Death: 22 May 1916 Missing
Died 22 May 1916
Imperial War Museum
Rifleman William Matthew Spencer 4037/591776. Unit: 4th Platoon, 1st/18th Battalion, London Regiment (London Irish Rifles). Death: 22 May 1916 Missing
Died 22 May 1916
Imperial War Museum
Garde Royale Anglaise - Trois Concerts [British Royal Guards - Three Concerts]
22 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Albert Charles Hunter 836. Unit: B Company, 10th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Expeditionary Force, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 22 May 1917 Died of wounds Western Front
Died 22 May 1917
Imperial War Museum