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!
Corporal Richard Frederick Ince Currie 947. Unit: 10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 5 July 1916, killed in action at Pozieres, Somme, Western Front.
Died 5 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Herbert Henry Shearman. Unit: 2nd Entrenching Battalion, late 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 05 July 1916 Western Front.
Died 5 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Thomas Orde Lauder Wilkinson VC. Unit: 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish), Canadian Expeditionary Force, attached to the 7th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Death: 5 July 1916, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memo
Died 5 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private George Trevitt Thurgarland served with the 5th Reinforcements of the 27th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. He was killed in July 1916.
Died 5 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Robert Moody Collyer 3487. Unit: 23rd Battalion, 6th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 05 July 1916 Killed in action Western Front
Died 5 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private William Mitchell 18272. Unit: 3 Platoon, A Company, 10th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s Regiment. Death: 05 July 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 5 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Alwyne Twyford Scrivener MID. Unit: 5th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 05 July 1917 Missing 1 July 1917 at Lievin, Lens (with Lieutenant Lowe). Western Front.
Died 5 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Herbert Crossley 34996. Unit: 3rd Platoon, A Company, 22nd Battalion (3rd Tyneside Scottish), Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 05 July 1917 Missing in action Western Front. Son of Mrs. Annie E. Crossley, of 80, Fawcett St., Sheffield.
Died 5 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Watering Camels in the desert near a Canal Post. The wire of the Suez Canal defences zigzags to the horizon.
5 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel William Bovet. Unit: Commanding Royal Engineers (CRE) of the 12th Division, Royal Engineers. Death: 05 July 1918 Western Front
Died 5 July 1918
Imperial War Museum
LONDONERS RECORD THEIR VOTE ON NATIONAL POLLING DAY, HOLBORN, LONDON, ENGLAND, UK, 5 JULY 1945
5 July 1945
Imperial War Museum
LONDONERS RECORD THEIR VOTE ON NATIONAL POLLING DAY, HOLBORN, LONDON, ENGLAND, UK, 5 JULY 1945
5 July 1945
Imperial War Museum