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!
Second Lieutenant Frank Calder Tilbrook joined the Grimsby Chums (10th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment) as soon as he turned 19 on 3 October 1914. He accepted a commission and became a second lieutenant in the 7th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, on 1
Died 3 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Arthur Harold Hobbs. Unit: 1st Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Death: 3 October 1915, wounded and missing in action, probably near Ypres, Western Front. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial.
Died 3 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Ralph Portland Akerman 1803. Unit: 28th Battalion, attached to 11th Battalion (Finsbury Rifles), London Regiment. Death: 03 October 1915 Royal Victoria Military Hospital
Died 3 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lance Sergeant Ernest Middleton 5115 or 201718. Unit: 7th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 03 October 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 3 October 1916
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Lieutenant Frederic Prockter. Unit: 7th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 03 October 1916 Western Front
Died 3 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Arthur Goldthorpe 17850. Unit: Machine Gun Section, 10th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). Death: 3 October 1916, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 3 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Rifleman Leonard J. Farr S/17988. Unit: 8th Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Death: 3 October 1916, Arras, Western Front.
Died 3 October 1916
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Corporal Charles Stewart Mitchell 6545. Unit: 21st Reinforcements, 5th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 03 October 1917 Western Front
Died 3 October 1917
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Corporal Charles Stewart Mitchell 6545. Unit: 21st Reinforcements, 5th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 03 October 1917 Western Front
Died 3 October 1917
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Second Lieutenant William Wells. Unit: East Surrey Regiment. Death: 03 October 1917 Missing in Action Western Front
Died 3 October 1917
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Captain Geoffrey Moore Cowper MID. Unit: North Middlesex Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to Dorsetshire Regiment. Death: 3 October 1918 Western Front
Died 3 October 1918
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Lieutenant Maxwell Dalston Barrows MC. Unit: E Company, 1st/5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment). Death: 03 October 1918.
Died 3 October 1918
Imperial War Museum