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!
Private Benjamin Dark 201317, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Captain Gilbert Wilson Fitzroy Birch , Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 24 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Captain Lee was killed in action, aged 20, on 24 August 1917 during the Battle of Passchendaele. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. Captain Lee's father, Brigadier General Noel Lee, was also a casualty of the First World War. Brigadier Genera
Died 24 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Herbert Sanderson 20056, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 24 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Edward McGowan 7917, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 24 August 1917
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Lance Serjeant John Riley 202172, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1917
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Major Thomas Lowis Bourdillon , King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 24 August 1917
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Private Arthur Scarth 33123, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 24 August 1917
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Private Edward Francis Archard 534475, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 24 August 1917
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Private Edward George Beavon 202131, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1917
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Private Edward Gordon Noy 26317, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1917
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Private Edwin Mallender 203573, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 24 August 1917
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Private Felix John Charles Foucher 20042, East Surrey Regiment
Died 24 August 1917
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Private Frederick Shale 202962, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1917
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Private Harry Blanchard Southern 26694, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1917
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Private Jesse Blunn 202685, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1917
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Private John Ridge 21279, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 24 August 1917
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Private Oswald Harrison Walsh 535216, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 24 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Richard Hubbard Arroll 241554, Seaforth Highlanders
Died 24 August 1917
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Private Thomas Fortey 243009, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1917
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Private William David Fishlock 8999, Wiltshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1917
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Private William Harry Henderson 26392, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1917
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Private William Reginald Bowen 235119, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 24 August 1917
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Rifleman Robert Richard Burgess R/22118, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 24 August 1917
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Second Lieutenant Arthur Bradley , King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 24 August 1917
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Second Lieutenant Edmund Kenneth Wallace Brown , 5th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1917
Lives of the First World War