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 Edward Francis Wakeford , Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 23 February 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private William Phillips 1250, West Somerset Yeomanry
Died 23 February 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private William Faithful 2803, Royal Irish Regiment
Died 23 February 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Evelyn Ernest Arnold Collisson , Bedfordshire Regiment
Died 23 February 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Albert Hollyoake 306755, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 23 February 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Alfred Henry Royal Oakes 7722, Royal Army Pay Corps
Died 23 February 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Alfred Tomkins 8/6320, Durham Light Infantry
Died 23 February 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private John Fulbrook 200359, 4th Hampshire Regiment
Died 23 February 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private John Glancy 17666, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Died 23 February 1917
Lives of the First World War
Quartermaster Serjeant Charles Albert Caswell 17469, North Staffordshire Regiment
Died 23 February 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Gwynne Morgan Dunn , West Riding Regiment
Died 23 February 1917
Lives of the First World War
Fourth Engineer Officer Samuel Percy Jones , S.S. British Viscount
Died 23 February 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lance Coporal Walter Arthur Stoter 11746, 19th (Queen Alexandra's Own Royal) Hussars
Died 23 February 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur John Owen 265141, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 23 February 1918
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Edward Shakespeare 45026, Royal Defence Corps
Died 23 February 1918
Lives of the First World War
Leading Seaman Walter William Curtis J14483, H.M.S. "P62"
Died 23 February 1919
Lives of the First World War
Nursing Sister Kate Elizabeth Ogg , Voluntary Aid Detachment
Died 23 February 1919
Lives of the First World War
Private Alexander McLean 6058, Australian Infantry Brigade
Died 23 February 1919
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick William Hough 33983, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Died 23 February 1919
Lives of the First World War
Private Geoffrey Thomas Hunt 23638, Wiltshire Regiment
Died 23 February 1919
Lives of the First World War
Corporal William Folks 20193, Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 23 February 1920
Lives of the First World War
Officer's Steward 1st Class Harold Philip Alexandre Gould L6443, H.M.S. "Caledon"
Died 23 February 1920
Lives of the First World War
Captain Percival Parker , Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 23 February 1933
Lives of the First World War
Captain Joshua Bower Dalton , Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 23 February 1938
Lives of the First World War
Captain John Ashley 3942, South Lancashire Regiment
Died 23 February 1940
Lives of the First World War
Major Clement Haughton Langston Cazalet , General List
Died 23 February 1950
Lives of the First World War
Private Frank Wootton 5663769, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 23 February 1959
Lives of the First World War
Captain HRH Prince Alexander Albert Battenberg , Grenadier Guards
Died 23 February 1960
Lives of the First World War