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 Alfred Valentine Preston 34905. Unit: C Battery, 160th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 29 September 1916 Western Front
Died 29 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Albert Charles Taylor GS/2445, Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 29 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Arthur Grimsdale 19024, Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 29 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Clarence Fisher 3/8534, Northamptonshire Regiment
Died 29 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Hermann Unwin Ingham 21655, Border Regiment
Died 29 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Leonard Moore 5875 or 612202. Unit: Grenade Section, 1st/19th Battalion, London Regiment. Death: 29 September 1916 Missing near Bois des Foureaux Western Front
Died 29 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Thomas C F Taylor 471150. Unit: DCompany, 25th Battalion, Canadian Infantry. Death: 29 September 1916 Western Front
Died 29 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Thomas C. Taylor 471150, Canadian Infantry
Died 29 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private William George Tyte A2960, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 29 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private William Henry Follett 25162, South Wales Borderers
Died 29 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private William Poskitt 3/2926, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 29 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private William Thomas Shrimpton 2299, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 29 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Frederick Arthur Rushworth , Yorkshire Regiment
Died 29 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Frederick Arthur Rushworth. Unit: 6th Battlion, Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 29 September 1916 Western Front
Died 29 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant William Wallace. Unit: Royal Scots Fusiliers, attached to 54th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). Death: 29 September 1916 Missing in Action at Thiepval Western Front
Died 29 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Serjeant Ernest Leopold Butt 12729, Hampshire Regiment
Died 29 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Staff Nurse Jessie Jane Paterson , Territorial Force Nursing Service
Died 29 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Staff Nurse Jessie Smith Paterson, Territorial Force Nursing Service. Died of illness in Macedonia 29 September 1916.
Died 29 September 1916
Imperial War Museum