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!
Acting Serjeant Daniel Bromley 13658, South Wales Borderers
Died 29 September 1915
Lives of the First World War
Captain Louis Napoleon Matheus Walewski. Unit: 29th Dragons, French Army. Death: 29 September 1915 Missing in Action at Navarin Western Front
Died 29 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Driver Archibald Abram Kingdom T/35197, Army Service Corps
Died 29 September 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Henry Munro G/2197, Middlesex Regiment
Died 29 September 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Henry Charles Mowbray Howard. Unit: 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment. Death: 29 September 1915, missing in action, Loos, Western Front. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial.
Died 29 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Marshall Thomson Allan. Unit: 6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, Bomb Officer in Battalion. Death: 26 September to 29 September 1915, Hohenzollern Redoubt, Western Front. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial.
Died 29 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Alfred Walter Fright L/9142, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
Died 29 September 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Ernest Groves R 7559, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 29 September 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private George Lucas Y827, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 29 September 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private William G Claxton 9356, 8th Norfolk Regiment
Died 29 September 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private William Thomas Thompson served with 'A' Company, 8th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. His service number was 12550. He was married to Annie Thompson of Kettering. He was recorded as missing on 29 September 1915 during the Battle of Loos, aged
Died 29 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private William Turnbull Davidson S/6725, Royal Highlanders
Died 29 September 1915
Lives of the First World War