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 George Norman Simms MVO. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Killed at Noyon Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Alexander Patrick Francis Lyon. Unit: 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 27 August 1914 At Bertry Western front
Died 27 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Challoner Francis Trevor Chute. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Charles Frederick Phayre. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Frederick Ernest Styles. Unit: 2nd Battalion (Special Reserve), Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Killed in action at Etreux Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Robert Merlin Graham Aytoun MID. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Death: 27 August 1914
Died 27 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Roger Owen Birkbeck Wakefield. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Wounded 26 August 1914 at Coudry, died at the temporary hospital there. Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant William Malcolm Chisholm. Unit: 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Death: 27 August 1914 Died of wounds at Ligny Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Paul Alfred Charrier. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Killed in action near Etreux Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Stuart Hamilton Rickman MID twice. Unit: 2nd Battalion, attached to and commanding 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consorts Own). Death: 27 August 1914 died of wounds in Cambrai hospital Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Carol Edward Vere Awdry. Unit: C Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant James Cyril Baptist Crozier. Unit: B Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Killed in action near Etreux Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major W. E. Hicks DSO MC 20069. Unit: 152nd Heavy Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: not known. Commissioned on 27 August 1915.
Died 27 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Charles Wesley King 373. Unit: A Company, 17th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 August 1915 Gallipoli, Dardanelles.
Died 27 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Joseph Kavanagh 249. Unit: A Company, 17th Battalion, 5th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 August 1915 at Hill 60 Western Front. Son of William and Margaret Kavanagh. Native of Melbourne.
Died 27 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Morrice Chapman 1527. Unit: 1st Reinforcements for 17th Battalion, 5th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 August 1915 Killed in action Turkey, Hill 60
Died 27 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant (Acting Company Sergeant Major) Harold Robert Lyne Colquhoun 275. Unit: 7th Platoon, B Company, 15th Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 August 1915 Killed in action at Hill 60 Gallipoli
Died 27 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Joseph Mark Snow 3184/200896. Unit: 1st/4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Death: 27 August 1916 Missing
Died 27 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Robert Slessar 3821. Unit: 6th Field Company, Australian Engineers, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 August 1916 Killed in action at Pozieres Western Front
Died 27 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Frederick Edward George Angell 5290/306854. Unit: 11 Platoon, "C" Company, 1st/8th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 27 August 1916, missing, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 27 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Gavin Hamilton 3363. Unit: "C" Company, 14th Battalion, 4th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 August 1916, died of wounds, Somme, Western Front.
Died 27 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Pte Mason was reported wounded and missing on 27 August 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 27 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Geoffrey Robert Wallace MC and Bar. Unit: 7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 27 August 1917 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 27 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Arthur Herbert Hillyer 56576. Unit: 15th Platoon, "D" Company, 16th Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Death: 27 August 1917, missing in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Died 27 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant James Hope Byres. Unit: 13th Battalion, Royal Scots. Death: 27 August 1917.
Died 27 August 1917
Imperial War Museum