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!
Battery Quartermaster Sergeant Joseph Alexander Ashford 19477. Unit: "A" Battery, 100th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 23 August 1916, Macedonia. Buried at the Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery.
Died 23 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Gunner Charles Wilfred Strong 102370, Royal Field Artillery
Died 23 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Walter Francis Butt 7841. Unit: 22nd Brigade, Australian Field Artillery, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 23 August 1916, Western Front.
Died 23 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Alfred John Saunders Sth/224, Royal Fusiliers
Died 23 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Alfred Langridge 3346. Unit: 6th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 23 August 1916 From gas poisoning Western Front
Died 23 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Leslie Haliburton Fynmore 628. Unit: "C" Company, 21st Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 23 August 1916, Mouquet Farm, Somme, Western Front.
Died 23 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Robert Rimmer 31219, King's Liverpool Regiment
Died 23 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Woolf Fisher 4518/266755. Unit: 1st/1st Bucks Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. Death: 23 August 1916, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 23 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Rifleman Thomas Bentham R/14648, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 23 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Edward Lionel Austin Butler 2, Australian Infantry
Died 23 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Edward Lionel Austin Butler. Unit: 12th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 23 August 1916
Died 23 August 1916
Imperial War Museum