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!
Lieutenant Colonel Reginald Alexander , Rifle Brigade
Died 29 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Lance Corporal John Herbert Ivins 7794, Coldstream Guards
Died 29 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Sydney Maurice Banbury 2413, Leicestershire Yeomanry
Died 29 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Archibald Manaton Farrier , South Wales Borderers
Died 29 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Philip Denys Doyne , Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Died 29 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Herbert Charles Thompson 10634, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 29 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private James Clarence Wixted 15835, East Lancashire Regiment
Died 29 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Leonard Luke Bracewell 1467, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
Died 29 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Louis Stringer 17944, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died 29 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Percy Charles Lennard 3007, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 29 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Fred Bulcock 19989, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 29 December 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Harold V Conn GS/15585, 1st Royal Fusiliers
Died 29 December 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant George Walker Watson , Royal Flying Corps
Died 29 December 1916
Lives of the First World War
Major William Reginald Karslake , Pembroke Yeomanry
Died 29 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Albert George Vorstius 533516, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 29 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur Hamilton Barrett 531100, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 29 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Cecil Charles Wolfaardt 11222, 3rd Regiment South African Infantry
Died 29 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Cedric Aubrey Bear 533287, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 29 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Bennett 241990, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 29 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private John Beresford Duncan 12044, British West Indies Regiment
Died 29 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Stephen Horsley 533283, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 29 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Leonard Reeve Beechey 593763, 18th London Regiment
Died 29 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Richard R Parry MM and Bar 265342, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 29 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Off. Ck. 1st. William Thomas Humpage L6176, HMS New Zealand
Died 29 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Albert Russell 57756, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 29 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Gilbert Henry Hurford 202429, Middlesex Regiment
Died 29 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Walter Filby Rayner 225649, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
Died 29 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Walter Duncan , Liverpool Regiment
Died 29 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Frederick Robinson 386765, Royal Engineers
Died 29 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Staff Serjeant Robert Turnbull Henderson, M.S.M. S4/237123, Royal Army Service Corps
Died 29 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Commander Nobumasa Suetsugu , Imperial Japanese Navy
Died 29 December 1944
Lives of the First World War
Private Alexander Ronald Probert Roger 527376, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 29 December 1944
Lives of the First World War
Lance-Corporal William Charles Fuller VC 7753, 2nd Welsh Regiment
Died 29 December 1974
Lives of the First World War