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 Joseph Henry Mantle 19338, East Lancashire Regiment
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Corporal William C Carver 302892. Unit: Lewis Gun Section, A Company, 5th Battalion, London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade). Death: 27 March 1918 to 01 April 1918 Missing in action
Died 27 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Driver Henry Smith 39349. Unit: B Battery, 117th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 27 March 1918 Killed in action
Died 27 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Gassed Australian soldiers lying out in the open at an over-crowded aid post near Bois de l'Abbe ... They had been gassed in the operations in front of Villers-Bretonneux
Taken 27 Mar 1918
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Gunner Frederick Arthur Birds 165332, 50th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Horace Ancell 760143, London Regiment (Artists' Rifles)
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Charles Finch Foster , (Queen's Royal) Lancers
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel John Stanhope Collings-Wells VC , Bedfordshire Regiment
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel Trevor Carus-Wilson , Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel Trevor Carus-Wilson DSO TD. Unit: 1st/5th Battalion, Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry. Death: 27 March 1918 Western Front
Died 27 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Harold Burn Hindle. Unit: Royal Field Artillery, attached to the "G" Battery, Royal Horse Artillery. Death: 27 March 1918, killed in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial.
Died 27 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Major Austin Hanbury Brown MC DSO. Unit: 2nd Field Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 27 March 1918 Western Front
Died 27 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Major Austin Hanbury Brown MC DSO. Unit: 2nd Field Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 27 March 1918 Western Front
Died 27 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Major Cecil James Hazard MC. Unit: 11th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Death: not known. Wounded and taken prisoner on 27 March 1918, Western Front.
Died 27 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Major Joseph John Banham MID. Unit: 9th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Death: 27 March 1918 Warvilliers Western Front
Died 27 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Major W P Stewart DSO. Unit: 12th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 27 March 1918 Western Front
Died 27 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Petty Officer Edward Barlow Walsh Z/5282, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve - Royal Naval Division
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Petty Officer Thomas Renshaw Mersey Z/468, Royal Naval Division - Hawke Battalion
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Albert Sidney McCullough 12019, Dorsetshire Regiment
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Bertie Handisides 15027, Durham Light Infantry
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Bertie Handisides 15027. Unit: Pioneers, 11th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Death: 27 March 1918, missing in action, Somme, Western Front.
Died 27 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private E H Thorne 62543 MM. Unit: 8th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 27 March 1918 Western Front
Died 27 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private Edward James Weakley 8066, 19th (Queen Alexandra's Own Royal) Hussars
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick Albert Gander 54199, Manchester Regiment
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private George Lax S/5585. Unit: B Coy, 9th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders (Pioneers). Death: 27 March 1918 Missing Western Front
Died 27 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private Gilbert Blois Knights 41785, Cambridgeshire Regiment
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Harold Smith 241878, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Harry Gilding 241058, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Henry Thomas Carter 35218, East Surrey Regiment
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Herbert Edward Lapidge TF/205019. Unit: 8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 27 March 1918 Western Front
Died 27 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private John Christopher Weatherhead 400467, Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Joseph William Lancett 241266, Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Oscar Arthur Kerry 235064. Unit: C Company, 7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Death: 27 March 1918 Western Front. Son of Oscar Arthur and Sarah Kerry, of 17, Warren Avenue, Stapleford, Notts.
Died 27 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private William Percival Glover 4914, 19th (Queen Alexandra's Own Royal) Hussars
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private William Thomas Hadlow 201053, East Kent Regiment
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Arthur Harold Smith , Manchester Regiment
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Basil Arthur Horsfall, VC , East Lancashire Regiment
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant John Edward Petyt , Manchester Regiment
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Robert MacKenzie Senior , Norfolk Regiment
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Robert Mackenzie Senior. Unit: 4th Battalion, attached to 7th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. Death: 27 March 1918 Western Front
Died 27 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant William Raymond Corley , East Surrey Regiment
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Alfred Jack Dancy 20304, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Charles Williams 831645, Royal Field Artillery
Died 27 March 1918
Lives of the First World War