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 Archibald Trotter. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 31 December 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 31 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Edwin Allen James Edwards. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 31 December 1914 wounded at Givenchy, died from wounds at Fishmonger's Hall Hospital, London. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Edwards, of Surbi
Died 31 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Ernest Kerr Molesworth. Unit: Royal Engineers, attached 2nd Battalion, Queen Victorias Own Madras Sappers and Miners. Death: 31 December 1914 At St.Hilaire Western Front
Died 31 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Anson Lloyd Silvester. Unit: Special Reserve, attached 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment.. Death: 31 December 1914 Killed at Guinchy near La Bassee Western Front
Died 31 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Guy Wiley Hughes. Unit: 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 31 December 1914, killed while searching for a missing soldier outside his trench at Bailleul, Western Front.
Died 31 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Edward Paton MID. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment. Death: 31 December 1914 Western Front
Died 31 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Richard Douglas Pryce-Jenkin. Unit: 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers. Death: 31 December 1914 Western Front
Died 31 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Charles Frederick Drought. Unit: 7th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 31 December 1915 Western Front.
Died 31 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Major Stanley Richardson Jackson. Unit: 19th Battalion, London Regiment. Death: 31 December 1915 Western Front.
Died 31 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
THE SERVICE OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL G H COOKE IN THE EAST AFRICA CAMPAIGN 1914 - 1918
31 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Frederick Archibald Harold Lyle 2498. Unit: 4th Reinforcements, C Company, 30th Battn., 8th Brigade, 5th Australian Division. Death: 31 December 1916 Western Front
Died 31 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
Staff Nurse Rosina Kate Sturt, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Died of illness contracted on duty 31 December 1916.
Died 31 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
Staff Nurse Rosina Kate Sturt, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Died of illness contracted on duty 31 December 1916.
Died 31 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lillian Midwood, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Drowned in the Mediterranean when the Osmanieh was torpedoed 31 December 1917.
Died 31 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lillian Midwood, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Drowned in the Mediterranean when the Osmanieh was torpedoed 31 December 1917.
Died 31 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Nurse G Bytheway, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Drowned in the Mediterranean when the Osmanieh was torpedoed 31 December 1917.
Died 31 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Nurse G Bytheway, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Drowned in the Mediterranean when the Osmanieh was torpedoed 31 December 1917.
Died 31 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Nurse Hermione A Rogers, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Drowned in the Mediterranean when the Osmanieh was torpedoed 31 December 1917.
Died 31 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Nurse Hermione A Rogers, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Drowned in the Mediterranean when the Osmanieh was torpedoed 31 December 1917.
Died 31 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Sister Catherine Ball, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Drowned in the Mediterranean when the Osmanieh was torpedoed 31 December 1917.
Died 31 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Sister W M Brown, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Drowned in the Mediterranean when the Osmanieh was torpedoed 31 December 1917.
Died 31 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Staff Nurse M Dorothea Roberts, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Drowned in the Mediterranean when the Osmanieh was torpedoed 31 December 1917.
Died 31 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Staff Nurse M Dorothea Roberts, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Drowned in the Mediterranean when the Osmanieh was torpedoed 31 December 1917.
Died 31 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Mrs Rita Watkinson, Women's Legion. Died of pneumonia 31 December 1919.
Died 31 December 1919
Imperial War Museum
REPATRIATION OF POLISH SERVICEMEN FROM BRITAIN TO POLAND, 1945-1948
31 December 1945
Imperial War Museum