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 John Binny Chalmers. Unit: 1st Devon Battery, 4th Wessex Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 01 October 1914 Killed by a fall from his horse United Kingdom
Died 1 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Samuel Barbour Combe. Unit: North Irish Horse (Special Reserve). Death: 01 October 1914 Killed in action on the Ainse Western Front. Husband of Mary Theresa Combe, of Donaghcloney, Co. Down.
Died 1 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Alexander Buller Turner VC. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Death: 01 October 1915 Died of wounds wounded 23 September 1915 Western Front
Died 1 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Percy Paris Pope. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Welsh Regiment. Death: 01 October 1915 Western Front
Died 1 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Thomas John Carlyle Davies. Unit: 1st Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Death: 01 October 1915 to 03 October 1915 Wounded and Missing in action Western Front
Died 1 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Landscape in northern France with local civilians digging in the field
1 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Allen Gouldsbrough 27876. Unit: 8th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Death: 1 October 1916, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 1 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private John Stewart 186707. Unit: 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion. Death: 01 October 1916 Missing believed in an attack on Regina Trench
Died 1 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Richard Alfred Robinson 632983. Unit: 1st/20th Battalion, London Regiment. Death: 01 October 1916 Western Front
Died 1 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private William Elbourne 4334. Unit: A Company, 1st Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers). Death: 01 October 1916 Missing in action.
Died 1 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Rfmn Willy was reported wounded and missing on 1 October 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on theThiepval Memorial.
Died 1 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Sapper William Archer Craddock 51601. Unit: 84th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 01 October 1916 to 02 October 1916 Missing in action Western Front
Died 1 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Arthur William Armitage. Unit: "D" Company, 8th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Death: 1 October 1916, Somme, Western Front.
Died 1 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Gunner Walter Pickles 116122. Unit: C Sub-Battery, also B Battery, 211th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 01 October 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 1 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Alan Humphrey Scott DSO MID. Unit: 56th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 01 October 1917 Western Front
Died 1 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Albert James Handley 2215. Unit: 46th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 1 October 1917, died of wounds, West Flanders, Western Front.
Died 1 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Arthur Robinson 24456. Unit: A Company, 2nd Battalion, Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding Regiment). Death: 01 October 1917 Western Front
Died 1 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Ernest Haden Elliot 421338. Unit: 2nd/3rd (North Midland) Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Death: 01 October 1917 Western Front.
Died 1 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Albert Edward Essery MM 15307. Unit: 8th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment. Death: 01 October 1917 Passchendaele Western Front.
He enlisted in October 1914 and was awarded the Military Medal on 6 February 1916. He is commemorated on the Tyne Co
Died 1 October 1917
Imperial War Museum