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!
Bombardier Arthur Noel Giles 42865, Royal Field Artillery
Died 28 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Captain Lennox Robert Murray Napier , Cameron Highlanders
Died 28 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Driver Joseph Mathurin L/10784, 151st Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Died 28 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Joseph H Taylor 2326, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 28 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Wilson 1875, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 28 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Clarence Everard Young 4340. Unit: D Coy, 8th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 28 July 1916 Western Front
Died 28 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Eric Lonsdale Vickerstaff 129, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 28 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Frank Newell 5048, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 28 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick William Patman PS/7261, Royal Fusiliers
Died 28 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Leonard Flanders Peacock 10242, Royal Fusiliers
Died 28 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Michael Peter McMahon 284. Unit: 17th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 28 July 1916, Pozieres, Somme, Western Front.
Died 28 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Richard Ramskill 241307, King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)
Died 28 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Samuel Alexander Cadle 1590, British West Indies Regiment
Died 28 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Sidney Frank Shorter 209, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 28 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private William Malin 3896, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 28 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Noel Marshall Vernham , East Surrey Regiment
Died 28 July 1916
Lives of the First World War