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!
Lance Corporal William Fraser 3746. Unit: "B" Company, 1st Pioneers, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 26 July 1916, wounded and missing in action, Somme, Western Front.
Died 26 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Olive Fawkes, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died on service 26 July 1916.
Died 26 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Albert Percy Meadows 1780. Unit: "D" Company, 10th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 26 July 1916, Somme, Western Front.
Died 26 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Arnold Atkins 4697/201733. Unit: 12th Platoon, 3rd Company, 4th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. Death: 26 July 1916, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 26 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Eric Henry H. Chambers 2821. Unit: Lewis Machine Gunner, 10th Battalion, 9th Reinforcements, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 26 July 1916, killed in action, Pozieres, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 26 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Henry James Constable 1702. Unit: 23rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 26 July 1916 to 4 August 1916, killed in action at Pozieres, Somme, Western Front.
Died 26 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Lester Anthony 3751. Unit: 31st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 26 July 1916, Boulogne hospital, wounded at Pozieres, Somme, Western Front.
Died 26 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Thomas Herbert Belpitt 2330. Unit: 12th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 26 July 1916, Somme, Western Front.
Died 26 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Fernan O’Halloran. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 26 July 1916, missing, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 26 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Lyle Barr. Unit: "C" Battery, 157th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 26 July 1916, Somme, Western Front.
Died 26 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Phillip Bernard Prothero. Unit: 4th Battalion, Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders, attached to 5th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 26 July 1917
Died 26 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain Francis Bennett Goldney. Unit: Honourable Assistant British Military Attache in Paris and Staff, Special List. Death: 26 July 1918, Western Front.
Died 26 July 1918
Imperial War Museum