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 John Alexander Fraser , Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Died 28 August 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain John Colloyran Michel. Unit: 12th (Price of Wales’s) Royal Lancers. Death: 28 August 1914 Western Front
Died 28 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Malcolm Leckie DSO. Unit: Royal Army Medical Corps. Death: 28 August 1914 Western Front
Died 28 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Reginald Walter Morton Stevens , Royal Irish Rifles
Died 28 August 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Reginald Walter Morton Stevens MID. Unit: Brigade Major, 9th Infantry Brigade, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 28 August 1914 Wounded 26 August 1914 at Le Cateau Western Front
Died 28 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Walter Adrian Carnegie Bowden Smith , 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers
Died 28 August 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Walter Adrian Carnegie Bowden-Smith. Unit: 4th Battalion, Royal Fusilliers (City of London Regiment). Death: 28 August 1914
Died 28 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Colonel Frank Ridley Farrer Boileau , Royal Engineers
Died 28 August 1914
Lives of the First World War
Colonel Frank Ridley Farrer Boileau MID. Unit: Royal Engineers, attached as General Staff Officer 1 to 3rd Division, General Staff. Death: 28 August 1914 Of wounds received at Ham Western France
Died 28 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal AG Evans joined the North Staffordshire Regiment on 28 August 1914. He was killed, aged 20, in Belgium on 1 June 1915. He is buried in the Royal Engineers Farm cemetery.
Died 28 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Commander Nigel Kenneth Walter Barttelot , HMS Liberty
Died 28 August 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Roger Owen Birbeck Wakefield , Royal Irish Fusiliers
Died 28 August 1914
Lives of the First World War