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!
Major Victor Reginald Brooke, DSO , 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers
Died 29 August 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Henry Percy Taylor 11/156, Wellington Mounted Rifles
Died 29 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Captain Philip Ignatius Callary , Australian Light Horse
Died 29 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class Archibald McVicar Sinclair 271726,
Died 29 August 1915
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Lance Corporal Alexander E Kelsall 15605, North Staffordshire Regiment
Died 29 August 1915
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Private Henry George Jarvis 8382, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 29 August 1915
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Private Thomas Cecil Davis 7207, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 29 August 1915
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Second Lieutenant Robin Howell Deck 7/797, Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Died 29 August 1915
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Sergeant Geoffrey Garnett Horsfall 217, Australian Light Horse
Died 29 August 1915
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Battery Serjeant Major Charles Partner 88924, Royal Field Artillery
Died 29 August 1916
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Captain Arthur Godfrey-Payton , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 29 August 1916
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Captain Jacob Hardy Smith, D.S.O., M.C. , Rifle Brigade
Died 29 August 1916
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Corporal Horace Timmins 851, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 29 August 1916
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Gunner Harold Harrison 6028, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 29 August 1916
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Gunner William Unthank 295390, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 29 August 1916
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Lance Corporal John Cherrie Dove S/11561, Cameron Highlanders
Died 29 August 1916
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Private Eric Walter Tyrer 1126, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 29 August 1916
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Private Harry A Cuff 7683, 1st Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 29 August 1916
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Private John Saunders 17735, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 29 August 1916
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Private William Armstrong S/9429, Seaforth Highlanders
Died 29 August 1916
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Captain /Acting Major G E B Watson , Royal Field Artillery
Died 29 August 1918
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Lance Corporal Thomas William Wharton 16732, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
Died 29 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Cecil Harold Sewell VC , Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) and 3rd (Light) Tank Bn. Tank Corps
Died 29 August 1918
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Lieutenant Colonel Edward Twelftree Saint, D.S.O. , Cambridgeshire Regiment
Died 29 August 1918
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Private Albert T Wright 41253, Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)
Died 29 August 1918
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Private Charles Padmore 26714, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 29 August 1918
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Private George Herbert Mayersbeth 10480, South Wales Borderers
Died 29 August 1918
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Private George Thomas Savage 202623, Hampshire Regiment
Died 29 August 1918
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Private Mark Eames 36245, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 29 August 1918
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Private William Billington 20779, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 29 August 1918
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Private William Isaac Williams 35949, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 29 August 1918
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Private William James Bedwell 505059, London Regiment
Died 29 August 1918
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Second Lieutenant Charles Thornhill Pearson , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 29 August 1918
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Second Lieutenant Lionel James Heaton , Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 29 August 1918
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Serjeant Edward Thomas Mills G/11156, Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 29 August 1918
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Serjeant Robert Stanley Bourne WR251147, Royal Engineers
Died 29 August 1918
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Private Reginald Lewis R Bradford 74448, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 29 August 1919
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Samuel Montague Gluckstein , Royal Field Artillery
Died 29 August 1928
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Gunner Charles Edwin Stone VC 34328, Royal Field Artillery
Died 29 August 1952
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Private Arthur Poulter VC 24066, West Riding Regiment
Died 29 August 1956
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Rowland Richard Louis Bourke VC , Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Died 29 August 1958
Lives of the First World War