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 Alec George Malcolm Graham , Worcestershire Regiment
Died 22 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Alec George Malcolm Graham. Unit: 6th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, attached to the 1st Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Death: 22 December 1914, Western Front. Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial.
Died 22 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Francis William Durand , Royal Munster Fusiliers
Died 22 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Geoffrey Stewart. Unit: 1st Battn., Coldstream Guards, Reserve of Officers. Death: 22 December 1914 Killed when retiring from lone reconnaissance made to enemy trenches at Givenchy. Flanders Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain George Henry Smart , West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
Died 22 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain George Henry Smart. Unit: 4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion, The Prince of Wale’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), attached to The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Death: 22 December 1914 Killed at Le Touret, France Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Godfrey Lionel John Cavendish , 97th Deccan Infantry
Died 22 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Godfrey Lionel John Cavendish. Unit: 97th Deccan Infantry, attached to 1st Battalion, 9th Bhopal Infantry, Indian Army. Death: 22 December 1914 Killed in action Age 31 Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Hugh Connor Henry O’Brien. Unit: 1st Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 22 December 1914 La Bassee France Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Hugh Conor Henry O'Brien , Royal Munster Fusiliers
Died 22 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Company Sergeant Major Harry Bailey 6475. Unit: A Company, 1st Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Death: 22 December 1914
Died 22 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
HMS Caroline (1914). Scale 1:48. A plan showing the inboard profile of the Caroline class light cruiser HMS Caroline (1914). Annotations in black ink show alterations carried out at Pembroke Dockyard in 1919.
22 December 1914
National Maritime Museum
Honorary Captain John Thomas Mills , Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Died 22 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Christopher Francis Verrall , Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 22 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Christopher Francis Verrall MID. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Death: 22 December 1914 At Epinette near La Bassee Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant John Richard Baggallay Weeding MID. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Death: 22 December 1914 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Richard William Danckwerts , Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 22 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Richard William Danckwerts. Unit: 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 22 December 1914 Died of wounds at Festubert Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Thomas Edward Doncaster Dunn , Scottish Rifles
Died 22 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Major Charles Bliss CIE. Unit: 1st Battalion, 1st King George's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment). Death: 22 December 1914 Of wounds Lillers Western Front. Son of Sir Henry W. Bliss, K.C.I.E.
Died 22 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Edmund Peel Thomson. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 22 December 1914 Killed in action at Festubert Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Francis Innes Day. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 22 December 1914 Killed in action at Givenchy Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Bevil Douglas Tollemache , Coldstream Guards
Died 22 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Bevil Douglas Tollemache. Unit: Special Reserve, attached 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 22 December 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Edward Archibald Beauchamp , Coldstream Guards
Died 22 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Edward Archibald Beauchamp. Unit: 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 22 December 1914 Of wounds at Givenchy-la-Basse Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Edward Archibald Beauchamp. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 22 December 1914 Died of wounds Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Geoffrey Chauner Wainwright , Northamptonshire Regiment
Died 22 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Geoffrey Chauner Wainwright. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Death: 22 December 1914 Wounded 21 December 1914 near Givenchy. Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Luke Frederick Rennell Coleridge. Unit: 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 22 December 1914 Wounded and Missing in action at Givenchy Western Front.
Died 22 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Roger Assheton Young , Royal Munster Fusiliers
Died 22 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Roger Assheton Young. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 22 December 1914 Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
Imperial War Museum