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 Albert Claude Dennis , Middlesex Regiment ex Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Company Serjeant Major Philip Moore 4754, Norfolk Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Corporal George Wills 1034, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Driver Richard Arthur Hopkinson 86752, Canadian Field Artillery
Died 27 July 1916
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Lance Corporal Oliver Thomas Wakefield 1024, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Lance Corporal William Reginald Warner 749, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Lance-Corporal Walter Charles Fraser 13781, Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 27 July 1916
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Lieutenant Archibald Clare Holland. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to the 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 27 July 1916, missing in action, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 27 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Albert Walker 1113, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Alfred Albert Sabine 17914. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Death: 27 July 1916 Wounded and Missing Delville Wood, Somme Western Front
Died 27 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Alfred James Dearden 1909. Unit: 22nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 27 July 1916, wounded and missing in action at Albert, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 27 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Allan James Fullarton 4264. Unit: "C" Company, 23rd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 27 July 1916, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 27 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Arthur John Brookes 15123, Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 27 July 1916
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Private Bernard Whyte 6112, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 27 July 1916
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Private Charles James Meredith 11419, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Private Charles W Potter 969, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Private Clarence Alfred Sinclair Smith 1555, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Private David Edward Hollis 6/2666, Canterbury Infantry Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Private Ernest Lazenby Styles 463, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Private Frank Basil Stanton 1186, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Private George Johnson 3646, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Private Harold Charles Minahan 1651, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Private Harry E. Milford 4528. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 July 1916, Pozieres, Somme, Western Front.
Died 27 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Hedley Stephen Gibbs 1231, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Private Henry Leonard Sands 20647, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Private Howard Edward Peevor 668, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Private Howard Perkins 418, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Private John Cavanagh 2591. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: Between 22 and 27 July 1916, killed in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 27 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private John Gardiner 2331. Unit: 22nd Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Froce. Death: between 27/07/1916 and 04/08/1916, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 27 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private John J Medcalf 1170, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Joseph Whitehouse 1035, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Private Leslie John Hodges 4237, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 27 July 1916
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Private Oliver A. Hellyer 1185. Unit: "D" Company, 18th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 July 1916, killed in action at Pozieres, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 27 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Percival Allen Allso 252, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Private Percy Douglas Jennings 375, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Private Richard Harold Paddock 419, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Private Thomas Charles White 1261, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Private Verner Wainwright 6650, London Regiment (London Scottish)
Died 27 July 1916
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Private Walter Henry Percival Wright 724, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Private William Arthur Darrington 25247. Unit: "C" Company, 22nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 27 July 1916, missing in action, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 27 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private William Lansley 15277, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Rifleman William John Hendy R/9436, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 27 July 1916
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Second Lieutenant Eric Francis Howard Taylor , Royal Fusiliers
Died 27 July 1916
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Second Lieutenant Ian Keith Millar , East Surrey Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
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Serjeant John Adams Cornish 542, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 July 1916
Lives of the First World War