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!
Corporal Francis Ernest Edward Souls 27636, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Driver Eveline Fidgeon Shaw 208, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Corps
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Alfred George West 203122, Royal Field Artillery
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lance-Corporal Robert Colquhoun Maver 203107, Royal Highlanders
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Arnold Ashton Justice Warner. Unit: 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards. Death: 24 August 1918 Western Front
Died 24 August 1918
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Arnold Ashton Justice Warner. Unit: 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 24 August 1918 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 24 August 1918
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Gilbert Edgar Adamson , Middlesex Regiment
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Gilbert Edgar Adamson MC. Unit: C Company, 7th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 24 August 1918.
He received his commission on 5 March 1915, subsequently serving with C Company on the Western Front from July to August 1917 and again from Oc
Died 24 August 1918
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Horace Wood , Royal Army Service Corps Transport
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Leonard Gustav Byng MC 2080. Unit: Inns of Court Officers Training Corps, attached to Royal West Kent Regiment and then to 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 24 August 1918 Western Front
Died 24 August 1918
Imperial War Museum
Nurse Eveline Fidgeon Shaw, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. Died of illness contracted on duty 24 August 1918.
Died 24 August 1918
Imperial War Museum
Nurse Eveline Fidgeon Shaw, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. Died of illness contracted on duty 24 August 1918.
Died 24 August 1918
Imperial War Museum
Petty Officer Charles Dimaline Z/4719, Royal Naval Division
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Alfred Hambleton 27186, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur David Roberts 14534, South Wales Borderers
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Cyril Robert Padbury DM2/224213, Royal Army Service Corps
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Edward Harry Sewell 1595, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick George Aylott 422417, London Regiment
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Herbert Francis Kyte 306744, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Joseph Septimus Blackburn G/20378, Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Lewis William Lewis 9561, South Wales Borderers
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Percy T Ashdown G/19620, Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 24 August 1918
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Private Roland Walter Tipping 242900, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Sidney Wright 24455, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Herbert Doggett 35267, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private William G Spendiff 203998, Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Arnold Ashton Justice Warner , Grenadier Guards
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Donald Stuart Hicklenton. Unit: 86th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 24 August 1918, killed in action at Bray-sur-Somme, Somme, Western Front.
Died 24 August 1918
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant G R T Marsh. Unit: Royal Flying Corps.. Death: 24 August 1918 Missing Western Front
Died 24 August 1918
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Samuel Forsyth VC 4/400, New Zealand Engineers
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Harold Jackson VC 18474, East Yorkshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Henry Newey 305886, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1918
Lives of the First World War