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 Ralph George Griffiths Cumine-Robson , Royal Engineers
Died 23 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Douglas Holme Wiggin , Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 23 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Lewis George Sparrow , South Wales Borderers attached King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died 23 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles William Parkes 2431, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 23 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Mark Vaux 2455, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 23 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Mervyn Roach 1191, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 23 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Solomon Sherwood 1802, Royal Lancaster Regiment
Died 23 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Roland Aubrey Leighton , Worcestershire Regiment
Died 23 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Evan John Jones 24767, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 23 December 1915
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Private Harold Ferguson 15097, Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 23 December 1915
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Private John Richard Douglas Scott 50911, Canadian Forces
Died 23 December 1915
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Private William Thomas Burgoyne 3611, 7th Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 23 December 1915
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Serjeant Joseph Halley 9160, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died 23 December 1915
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Sister Myrtle Elizabeth Wilson , Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
Died 23 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Alfred Abbott 15621, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 23 December 1916
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Private William Carpenter Tilley 19430, Dorsetshire Regiment
Died 23 December 1916
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Trooper Norman Farquhar Bruce Huon 2592, 8th Light Horse Regiment
Died 23 December 1916
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Company Sergeant Major Robert Alfred John Ouzman 593131, London Regiment
Died 23 December 1917
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Corporal Henry Loney 5851, British West Indies Regiment
Died 23 December 1917
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Engineer Lieutenant Commander David Duncan Cuninghame , HMS Marlborough
Died 23 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Flight Sub-Lieutenant Douglas Ross Cameron Wright , Royal Naval Air Service
Died 23 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Flt Sub-Lieutenant Thomas Malcomson Greeves PI 40371, Royal Naval Air Service
Died 23 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Stanley James Young , Royal Flying Corps
Died 23 December 1917
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Lieutenant-Commander Frederick Archibald Warner, D.S.O. ,
Died 23 December 1917
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Private Albert Douglas Melvin Chapman 592875, 18th London Regiment
Died 23 December 1917
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Private Henry James Whiting 703053, London Regiment
Died 23 December 1917
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Private Percy Burton 38622, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 23 December 1917
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Serjeant Joseph Stephenson 4135, British West Indies Regiment
Died 23 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Trooper Acting Corporal George Boyd McArthur 3545, 1st Life Guards
Died 23 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Captain Mellard Settle , North Staffordshire Regiment
Died 23 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Ernest Betteridge 151010, Royal Field Artillery
Died 23 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Emanuel Reid 14722, British West Indies Regiment
Died 23 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Colonel Standish de Courcy O'Grady, C.M.G., D.S.O. , Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 23 December 1920
Lives of the First World War