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!
Chaplain Major William Grant 11/86, New Zealand Chaplains Department
Died 28 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Corporal John Augustus Barnaby 240436, Norfolk Regiment
Died 28 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Corporal William Joseph George Frederick Armstrong Lombard Whittall 1772, Corps of Hussars
Died 28 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Cyril Hayter 7/63, Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Died 28 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant The Honourable Charles Alfred Lister , Royal Marines
Died 28 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Major Clive Emerson Connelly. Unit: Officer Commanding, D Company, 14th Battalion, 4th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 28 August 1915 Killed in action at Hill 60 Gallipoli
Died 28 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Ernest J Munday 3367, Leicestershire Regiment
Died 28 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Ernest Williams 1560, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 28 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Harold Edgar Southwell 12682, King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Died 28 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private William Albert Burtonshaw GS1673, 7th Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 28 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Queensland Patriotic Day at the Exhibition grounds, Brisbane, 1915
Taken 28 Aug 1915
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Queensland Patriotic Day parade, Brisbane, 1915
Taken 28 Aug 1915
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Stoker 2nd Class Thomas Bates K25645, H.M.S. "Victory"
Died 28 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Trooper Cyril Benjamin Levien 897. Unit: 9th Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 28 August 1915, Gallipoli, Dardanelles.
Died 28 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Trooper James Alexander MacGillivray 312. Unit: 9th Light Horse Regiment, 3rd Light Horse Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 28 August 1915 Hill 60 Gallipoli
Died 28 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Trooper Ringin Ballantyne 7/693, Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Died 28 August 1915
Lives of the First World War