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 Charles Ramsay Lumsden. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders. Death: 25 August 1914 At Mons Western Front
Died 25 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Gerard Lourdes Edward Sherlock. Unit: 3rd (King’s Own) Hussars, attached to 5th Battalion, Nigeria Regiment, West African Frontier Force. Death: 25 August 1914 Killed in action after being appointed to Nigeria Regiment, West African Frontier For
Died 25 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain John Summerscales Hutchinson. Unit: 2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment. Death: 25 August 1914 to 26 August 1914 Missing in action at Solesmes during retreat from Mons Western Front
Died 25 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Mansergh Cuthbert Fowke. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Death: 25 August 1914, Le Cateau, Western Front.
Died 25 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Thomas Strange Wickham DSO MID four times. Unit: Manchester Regiment, attached to 5th Nigeria Regiment, Mounted Infantry, West African Frontier Force. Death: 25 August 1914 Killed in Action at Tepe in the Cameroons West Africa
Died 25 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Archer Windsor-Clive. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 25 August 1914 Killed in Action at Landrecies holding the line during the retreat from Mons. Western Front
Died 25 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Robert Cornwallis Maude. Unit: 3rd Battalion, 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 25 August 1914 to 26 August 1914, killed by a shell at Landrecies, Western Front.
Died 25 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Denys Shine. Unit: 1st Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment. Death: 25 August 1914 Died from wounds received at Mons Western Front
Died 25 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private Reverend Walter Benjamin Beaver. Unit: B Company, Show Grounds Camp, Australian Infantry Base Depot, Flemington, Melbourne. Death: 25 August 1915 contracted meningitis and died in camp.
Died 25 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant William Robert Dugay 119. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 25 August 1915 Died of wounds at Heliopolis Egypt Palestine.
Died 25 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Arthur William Frölich (Frohlich) 879. Unit: "D" Company, 24th Battalion, 6th Brigade, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 25 August 1916, Western Front.
Died 25 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Reginald Walter W James 581. Unit: 19th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 25 August 1916 Pozieres Western Front.
Died 25 August 1916
Imperial War Museum