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!
Captain Eric John Fletcher Gough. Unit: 1st Battalion, Irish Guards. Death: 30 December 1914, Western Front.
Died 30 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Robert Patrick Miles. Unit: 1st Battalion, The King’s Shropshire Light Infantry; attached 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 30 December 1914 Western Front
Died 30 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant James Robertson Jack Mylles MA. Unit: 3rd Reserve Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 30 December 1914 Flanders Western Front age at death 21
Died 30 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Brevet Colonel Ernest Robert Rainier Swiney. Unit: 1st Battalion, 39th Garhwal Rifles, Indian Army. Death: 30 December 1915 Possibly lost at sea in the Mediterranean Egypt
Died 30 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain James Whyte Swanston. Unit: Mercantile Marine, SS Clan Macfarlane (Glasgow). Death: 30 December 1915 Last seen on the 4 January 1916 after his ship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean near Crete Mediterranean Sea
Died 30 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Caroline Maud Edwards, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service. Died on 30 December 1915 after an explosion on HMS Natal.
Died 30 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Caroline Maud Edwards, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service. Died on 30 December 1915 after an explosion on HMS Natal.
Died 30 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Eliza Elvins, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Died after an explosion on HMS Natal 30 December 1915.
Died 30 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain George Kazimierz Arthur De Janasz. Unit: 3rd Section Ambulance Company, attached to Army Service Corps. Death: Not known. Entered the French theatre of war on 30 December 1916.
Died 30 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
Leading Seaman Joseph Ingham Battye. Service number: Tyneside Z/11314. Unit: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, SS Hercules. Death: 30 December 1917.
Died 30 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Cyril Groom. Unit: 28th Battalion, London Regiment (Artist's Rifles). Death: 30 December 1917, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 30 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Mrs Mary Couldrey, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died December 1917 30 December 1917.
Died 30 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Gamm Dyson 766949. Unit: 1st/28th Battalion, London Regiment (Artists Rifles). Death: 30 December 1917 Missing in action Western Front. Son of Matthew and Mary Dyson, of Whitwell Cottage, Stocksbridge, Sheffield.
Died 30 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private George Henry Middlebrook 18422. Unit: C Company, 2nd/5th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment. Death: 30 December 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 30 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private James Arthur Simpson 766451. Unit: B Company, 1st/28th Battalion, London Regiment (ArtistsRifles). Death: 30 December 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 30 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Harold Walter Barnett. Unit: 5th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment. Death: 30 December 1917
Died 30 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Jessie Smith Jamieson, Territorial Force Nursing Service. Died of pneumonia contracted on active service 30 December 1918.
Died 30 December 1918
Imperial War Museum