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 James Edwin Warren 531142, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Percy Vere Coleman 530607, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Henry Cureton Roberts , Montgomeryshire Yeomanry
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Major Thomas Lovell Warner , Leicestershire Regiment
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Alfred Peacock G/32943, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur Albert Ross 532379, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur George Long 5168, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Bertram Arthur Heath 532878, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Edward Hill 534090, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Douglas John Martin Geddes 533027, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Ernest Frank Stanton Moore 532398, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick Gould 290247, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick Victor Bolton 532354, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private George Pennell 532775, 2/15 Battalion London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Henry George Nankivell 535595, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Herbert Frederick Howard Cowan 533650, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private John David Herbert 531808, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Leslie George Moore 533792, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Reginald Kirk 532466, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Robert Naylor East 201479, Cheshire Regiment
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Rowland Brown 533440, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Walter Keith Frewen 554447, London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles)
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Roland Hanwell Harris, MC , London Regiment
Died 27 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
THE ROYAL ENGINEERS SIGNALS SERVICE ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
27 December 1917
Imperial War Museum