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!
Assistant Clerk George William Henry Adams. Unit: HMS Formidable. Death: 01 January 1915 English Channel
Died 1 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Brevet Major Harry Cecil Johnson DSO. Unit: King's Royal Rifle Corps, attached as Brigade Major to 19th Infantry Brigade. Death: 01 January 1915 died in hospital at Cambrai as POW from shrapnel wounds received in Le Cateau on 26 Aug 1914 Western Front.
Died 1 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Commander Charles Frederick Ballard. Unit: Royal Navy, HMS Formidable. Death: 01 January 1915 At Sea
Died 1 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Engineer John Bradley. Unit: HMS Viknor, Royal Naval Reserve. Death: 01 January 1915 At sea
Died 1 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Fleet Paymaster Percy John Ling. Unit: HMS Formidableâ€, Royal Navy. Death: 01 January 1915 Vessel sunk by submarine Engish Channel
Died 1 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Fleet Surgeon Godfrey Taylor MB BA. Unit: Royal Navy, HMS Formidable. Death: 01 January 1915 Killed in action when his ship was torpedoed in the English Channel. Home Waters.
Died 1 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant (Acting) Edmund Willaim Alfred Humphrey. Unit: Royal Naval Reserve, HMSFormidable. Death: 01 January 1915 Killed in action when his vessel was torpedoed in the English Channel Home Waters
Died 1 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Commander William Crawford Harrison. Unit: Royal Navy, HMS Formidable. Death: 1 January 1915, killed in action when HMS Formidable was torpedoed in the English Channel. Commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.
Died 1 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Edmund Arnott Hill. Unit: Royal Navy, HMS Formidable. Death: 1 January 1915, killed in action when HMS Formidable was torpedoed in the English Channel. Commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.
Died 1 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Frederick Brian Arthur Fargus. Unit: 1st/9th Battalion, London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles). Death: 01 January 1915, Western Front.
Died 1 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant George Pilkington. Unit: HMS Arrogant, Commanding Submarine C31, Royal Navy. Death: 01 January 1915 Lost with vessel 7 Jan? Atlantic Ocean
Died 1 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Midshipman (Probationary) Donald Stewart Tattersall. Unit: Royal Navy, HMS Formidableâ€. Death: 01 January 1915 Killed in action when his vessel was torpedoed in the English Channel. Home Waters
Died 1 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Midshipman Ernest Geoffrey Cadle. Unit: Royal Navy, HMS Formidable. Death: 01 January 1915 Killed in action Vessel torpedoed in the English Channel
Died 1 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Midshipman George Stephenson Wingrove. Unit: Royal Navy, HMS Formidable. Death: 01 January 1915 Killed in Action when his vessel was sunk by enemy torpedoes in the English Channel. Home Waters
Died 1 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Midshipman John Slingsby. Unit: Royal Navy, HMS Formidable. Death: 01 January 1915 Killed in action when his ship was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine in the English Channel. English Channel
Died 1 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Benjamin Andrew Acreman 481. Unit: 2nd Light Horse Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. Death: 01 January 1915 On the transport “Borda†Mediterranean
Died 1 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant (Temporary) Alastair Graham Menzies Menzies. Unit: 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 01 January 1915 Western Front
Died 1 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Rodolph Algernon Persse MID. Unit: Rifle Brigade, attached to 2nd Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 01 January 1915 Western Front
Died 1 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Surgeon Septimus Hibbert. Unit: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, HMS Formidable. Death: 1 January 1915, killed in action, English Channel. Commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.
Died 1 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
The Old Skating Rink. Aldwych : October 1915, a clearing house for Belgian refugees
1 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Costumes of the British Army In Flanders : Officer and men leaving the trenches on relief
1 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant John Ellis Pooley. Unit: 28th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 01 January 1917 Western Front
Died 1 January 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Harry Robert Holman 1210. Unit: "D" Company, 38th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 1 January 1917, killed in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 1 January 1917
Imperial War Museum