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 Archibald Alastair McLeod , Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Archibald Alastair McLeod. Unit: 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 02 November 1914 Western Front
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Bingham Alexander Turner DSO. Unit: 6th (Reserve) Battalion, Rifle Brigade, attached 2nd Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 02 November 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Charles Frederick Leonard Pierson. Unit: 114th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 02 November 1914 Western Front
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Charles Oliver Swanston, D.S.O. , Indian Staff Corps
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Cyril Francis Hawley. Unit: 2nd Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 2 November 1914, killed in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Ernest Mure Glanvill , Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Ernest Mure Glanvill MB. Unit: Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to the 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys). Death: 2 November 1914, Ypres, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Francis Hewson Barton. Unit: 2nd Battalion, 2nd King Edward's Own Gurkha Rifles (the Sirmoor Rifles). Death: 02 November 1914 Western Front
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain George Clayhills DSO. Unit: 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Death: 02 November 1914 Killed in action north of Armentieres Western Front. Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Clayhills, of Invergowrie, Forfarshire.
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Henry Robert Augustus Adeane , Coldstream Guards
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Robert Frank Clothier. Unit: Adjutant, 13th Rajputs (Shekhawati Regiment), Indian Army. Death: 02 November 1914 Killed in action German East Africa (Tanzania)
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Roland Sackville Fletcher , Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Thomas Humphrey Sneyd , Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Thomas Humphrey Sneyd. Unit: 4th Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. Death: 02 November 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Driver David Horace Paton 58707, Royal Field Artillery
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal James Thomas 10406, South Wales Borderers
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lance Serjeant Frederick Alfred Maull 7406, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Anthony Theodore Clephane Wickham , Connaught Rangers
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Arthur George Murray-Smith. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Life Guards. Death: 02 November 1914 Western Front age at death 28
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Oliver Swanston DSO. Unit: Commanding Officer, 34th Prince Albert Victor’s Own Poona Horse, Indian Army. Death: 02 November 1914 Killed in action near Neuve Chapelle while leading his regiment. Western Front
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Edward Arthur Lousada. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Death: 02 November 1914 Western Front
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Geoffrey Dyett Abbott , Connaught Rangers
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Geoffrey Dyett Abbott. Unit: 1st Battalion, Connaught Rangers. Death: 02 November 1914 Laventie Western Front
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Ian Charles Innes. Unit: 2nd Battalion, 2nd King Edward's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles), attached to 34th Sikh Pioneers, Indian Army. Death: 02 November 1914 Western Front. Son of the late Charles Innes, of Bishopsthorpe, Inverness.
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant James Lestock Ironside Reid. Unit: 1st Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, 2nd King Edwards Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles). Death: 02 November 1914 Neuve Chapelle Western Front
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Laurance Cail Nicholson, D.S.O. , Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Laurence Cail Nicholson DSO MID. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached 1st Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment, formerly 14th Hussars. Death: 02 November 1914 Died of wounds Western Front
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Leslie George Hamlyn Harris , Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Richard Charles Graves-Sawle , Coldstream Guards
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Richard Charles Graves-Sawle. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 2 November 1914, killed in action at Ypres, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Robert Peyton Hughes. Unit: Adjutant, 101st Grenadiers, Indian Army. Death: 2 November 1914, killed in action, German East Africa (present day Tanzania).
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Ronald Mosse MacDonald. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders. Death: 02 November 1914 Veldhoek Ypres Western Front
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Thomas Hugh Mathews. Unit: C Company, 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Death: 02 November 1914 Western Front
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Eustace Crawley , 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Major Eustace Crawley. Unit: 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers. Death: 02 November 1914 Killed in action near Ypres Western Front
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Fleetwood George Campbell Ross , 2/2nd Gurkha Rifles
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Major Fleetwood George Campbell Ross. Unit: 2nd Battalion, King Edward’s Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles), Indian Army. Death: 02 November 1914 At Neuve Chapelle Western Front
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Henry Sullivan Becher. Unit: 2nd Battalion, 2nd King Edwar's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles), attached to 34th Sikh Pioneers. Death: 02 November 1914 Flanders Western Front
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Lionel Stuart Logan. Unit: Supply & Transport Corps, Indian Army. Death: 02 November 1914 France Western Front
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private Albert Lovegrove 10840, South Wales Borderers
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Alexander Henry Richardson 5903, Hampshire Regiment
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Durnell 7736, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Meredith 11985, South Wales Borderers
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private George Austin 9953, Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private William Crumplin 7619, 1st Hampshire Regiment
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Claude Joseph O’Connor Mallins. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Connaught Rangers. Death: 02 November 1914 Western Front
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Douglas Lennox Harvey , 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant James William Brown 46961, Royal Field Artillery
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant James William Brown. Unit: 26th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 02 November 1914 Wounded 31 October 1914 Western Front
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Henry Lyons Walcott , Indian Army Gurkha Rifles
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant John Henry Lyons Walcott. Unit: 2nd King Edwards Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles), attached to 34th Sikh Pioneers, Indian Army. Death: 02 November 1914 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Leslie George Hamlyn Harris. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Death: 2 November 1914, killed in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Percy John Whitehouse , Royal West Kent Regiment attached Northamptonshire Regiment
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Percy John Whitehouse. Unit: 3rd Battalion, The Queens Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), attached to 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Death: 02 November 1914 Killed in Action at Hooge. Western Front
Died 2 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant William Ronald Morley Crossman , King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 2 November 1914
Lives of the First World War