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!
Air Mechanic 2nd Class George Theophilius Guy 79556, Royal Air Force
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Company Serjeant Major William Thomas Smith 241987, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Herbert Stanley Wade 51873, Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
GENERAL MARSHALL READING THE PROCLAMATION OF THE ARMISTICE WITH TURKEY IN THE SERAI, BAGHDAD
2 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
Gunner John Cunnington 884556, Royal Field Artillery
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Gunner William John Beecher 62156, Royal Horse Artillery
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal William David Barnett 80327, New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Geoffrey Heighington, M.C. , Canadian Mounted Rilfes
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Miss Sarah Ann Wiggin, Joint War Committee. Died of pneumonia contracted on duty 02 November 1918.
Died 2 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
Monsieur Glotz et son épouse, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 14 883
2 novembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Monsieur Glotz et son épouse, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 74 805
2 novembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Private Charles Henry Conder 241408, Lincolnshire Regiment
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Edward Charles Samuel Bowden DM2/137702, Army Service Corps
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Frank Louis Ferguson GS/75307, Royal Fusiliers
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private George John Thatcher 271017, Bedfordshire Regiment
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Herbert Nurse Lyle 21056, 4th Regiment South African Infantry
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private John Henry Adams 54358, Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Joseph Startin 9867, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Joseph Wilfrid S Cooke 118091. Unit: 19th Battalion, London Regiment, attached to C Company, 74th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps. Death: 02 November 1918 Killed in action near Tournai Western Front
Died 2 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private Louis Neville Fynn 20894, 1st Regiment South African Infantry
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Robert Peerless G/12335, Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Robert William Pegg TR/9/48711, Bedfordshire Regiment
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Henry Smith 82980, Middlesex Regiment
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas John Gladstone Legg 436925, Labour Corps
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private William George Wilson 1834, British West Indies Regiment
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Keith Elphinstone Mason 77157, New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Nathaniel Barron 80594, New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Samuel Frost North , Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Sergeant Thomas Renwick 47396, Canadian Labour Corps
Died 2 November 1918
Lives of the First World War