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 Edward Kinder Bradbury VC. Unit: 'L' Battery, Royal Horse Artillery. Death: 01 September 1914. Son of Judge James Kinder Bradbury and Grace Bradbury, of Altrincham, Cheshire.
Died 1 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Iain MacDougall. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 01 September 1914 Villers Cotterets Western Front
Died 1 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Robert Harold Oliver. Unit: 1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. Death: 01 September 1914 Western Front
Died 1 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Claude Norman Champion De Crespigny. Unit: 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays). Death: 01 September 1914 Killed in action at Compiegne Western Front.
Died 1 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel George Henry Morris. Unit: 1st Battalion, Irish Guards. Death: 01 September 1914 Villers-Cotterets Western Front
Died 1 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel George Kirkpatrick Ansell Passed Staff College. Unit: Commanding Officer, 5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte of Wales's). Death: 01 September 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 1 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant John Davies Campbell. Unit: L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery. Death: 1 September 1914 Killed in action Nery near Compiegne Western Front
Died 1 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant John Neville Manners. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards.. Death: 01 September 1914 Western Front
Died 1 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Lionel Frank Hastings Mundy MID. Unit: L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery. Death: 01 September 1914 Western Front
Died 1 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Charles Arthur Tisdall. Unit: 1st Battalion, Irish Guards. Death: 01 September 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 1 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Hubert Francis Crichton. Unit: 1st Battalion, Irish Guards. Death: 01 September 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 1 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major John Stephen Cawley MID. Unit: 20th Hussars, attached to 1st Cavalry Brigade. Death: 01 September 1914 Killed in action Age 34 Nery, Western Front
Died 1 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Percy Hastings. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment. Death: 1 September 1914, died from wounds, Western Front.
Died 1 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant George Edward Cecil. Unit: 4th Company, 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 1 September 1914, killed in action, age 18, Western Front.
Died 1 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Hugh Antrobus. Unit: 6th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. Death: 01 September 1915 Western Front
Died 1 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Gunner Alan McKinlay DCM. Unit: 1st Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 01 September 1915 Gallipoli
Died 1 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal John Robert Avison 8658. Unit: 15th Platoon, 4th Company, 2nd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. Death: 01 September 1915 Loos Western Front
Died 1 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Edward McLaughlin. Unit: 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 01 September 1915 Western Front
Died 1 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
An Artillery Barrage on the Somme Battlefield : Mametz Wood, Contalmaison Château, Fricourt Wood and Delville Wood in the
distance. Drawn from King's Hill, Fricourt, September, 1916.
1 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Alec Forbes. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 1 September 1916, Ginchy, Somme, Western Front.
Died 1 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Bernard Hickey 4615. Unit: "B" Company, 16th Battalion, 4th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 1 September 1916, killed in action, Somme, Western Front.
Died 1 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private William Thomas Menzies 687. Unit: C Company, 25th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 01 September 1916 Western Front
Died 1 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
The Happy Warrior, Montauban : A wounded Grenadier Guard and wounded German prisoners, September, 1916
1 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Monsieur R D de Maratray, a French War Correspondent. (Le Petit Journal).
1 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Harold Dodson 83150. Unit: No. 2 Section, Machine Gun Corps. Death: 01 September 1917 Missing in action.
Died 1 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
1 September 1918
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
1 September 1918
Imperial War Museum