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!
2nd Corporal Herbert Stanley Day 145474, Royal Engineers
Died 27 May 1918
Lives of the First World War
Captain D Munro Smith. Unit: Royal Army Medical Corps.. Death: 27 May 1918 Missing
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum
Captain James Milner MC. Unit: Army Service Corps, attached 2nd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. Death: 27 May 1918 Missing Western Front
Died 27 May 1918
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Captain Neville Mariott North , Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 27 May 1918
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Corporal Bertram Charles Cooke 310926, Warwickshire Yeomanry
Died 27 May 1918
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Gunner John Leslie Warner L/27094, Royal Field Artillery
Died 27 May 1918
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Lance Corporal Henry Harrison 241519, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Died 27 May 1918
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Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Annesley Gray-Cheape, D.S.O. and Bar , Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars (Worcester Yeomanry)
Died 27 May 1918
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Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Henry Anderson-Morshead , Devonshire Regiment
Died 27 May 1918
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Lieutenant George Walter Young , East Yorkshire Regiment
Died 27 May 1918
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Lieutenant Paul Wrey Gardiner. Unit: 4th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, attached to the 1st Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 27 May 1918, killed in action, Aisne, Western Front. Commemorated on the Soissons Memorial.
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum
Lt-Col [acting] James Bertram Falkner Cartland , Worcestershire Regiment
Died 27 May 1918
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Major James Bertram Falkner Cartland , Worcestershire Regiment
Died 27 May 1918
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Master Edward John Holl, D.S.C. , Mercantile Marine, Master, H.M.T. "Leasowe Castle"
Died 27 May 1918
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Pioneer Harry Bell. Unit: Entrenching Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 27 May 1918
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private (Signaller) Albert H Booth 41425. Unit: B Company, Leicestershire Regiment. Death: 27 May 1918
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private Albert McNaughton 42334, Leicestershire Regiment
Died 27 May 1918
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Private Alfred William Keeley 79009, Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 27 May 1918
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Private Archibald Ferguson 11395, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Died 27 May 1918
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Private Charles C Adkins 267733, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 May 1918
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Private Edward Clarkson 200955, Royal Lancaster Regiment
Died 27 May 1918
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Private Edward Thomas Dawson 170815/237044. Unit: Sussex Yeomanry, attached to Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 27 May 1918 Missing in action
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private Ernest J Kendall 204110. Unit: Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 27 May 1918 missing in action.
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private George Frederick Andrews 35670, Yorkshire Regiment
Died 27 May 1918
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Private John Thomas Snooke 242415, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 May 1918
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Private John Willie Charlesworth 42685, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 27 May 1918
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Private Joseph Brayton Scott 64744, 10th Cheshire Regiment
Died 27 May 1918
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Private Robert Gorrill 122903, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 27 May 1918
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Private Robert W Barneveld 46778/305998. Unit: 5th Battalion, London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade), attached to 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Death: 27 May 1918
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private William Bamford 62270, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
Died 27 May 1918
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Private William Brotheridge 310871, Warwickshire Yeomanry
Died 27 May 1918
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Private William James Fox 67412, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 27 May 1918
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Private William Roach 40400, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 May 1918
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Private William Robert Dancey 22550, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 27 May 1918
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Second Lieutenant C. E. Holliday. Unit: Royal Field Artillery. Death: 27 May 1918 to 31 May 1918, missing in action.
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Claude Sydenham. Unit: South African Artillery, serving with 39th Division, French Army, but Attached to the British Ambulance Service. Death: 27 May 1918 MIA near Soissons Western Front
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Cyril Elmore Pells , Devonshire Regiment
Died 27 May 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant David Joseph A'Herne , Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 27 May 1918
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Second Lieutenant David Joseph A'Herne 762. Unit: Honourable Artillery Company, attached to the 116th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 27 May 1918, missing in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Soissons Memorial.
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Ernest Alexander Jackson , Border Regiment
Died 27 May 1918
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Second Lieutenant Ernest Alexander Jackson. Unit: B Company, 6th Battalion, attached to 8th Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 27 May 1918 Western Front.
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Francis Egerton Turnbull , Durham Light Infantry
Died 27 May 1918
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Second Lieutenant Francis Joseph Sullivan , Durham Light Infantry
Died 27 May 1918
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Second Lieutenant George Bertrand Coote , Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 27 May 1918
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Second Lieutenant John Barnett Slack , Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 27 May 1918
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Second Lieutenant John Lindsay Rapoport. Unit: 6th Battalion, attached to 12th Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Death: 27 May 1918 Missing Western Front
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant William Franklin George Joseph , Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 27 May 1918
Lives of the First World War