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 Arthur William Macarthur Onslow MID. Unit: 16th (Queen’s) Lancers. Death: 05 November 1914 Ypres Western Front
Died 5 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Charles Edward Hack. Unit: 1st Battalion, Connaught Rangers. Death: 5 November 1914, killed in action defending a trench whilst giving orders, Western Front.
Died 5 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Graham de Montmorency Armstrong-Lushington-Tulloch. Unit: A Company, 1st Battalion, Connaught Rangers. Death: 05 November 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 5 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain John Francis Allen MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Death: 05 November 1914 Ypres Western Front
Died 5 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain William Frank Gardiner Baird. Unit: 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 05 November 1914 Of wounds Boulogne hospital Western Front
Died 5 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Edward Joseph Cormac-Walshe. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Leinster Regiment. Death: 05 November 1914 Wounded in action on 21st October 1914 at Premesques, near Lille Died of wounds
Died 5 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Edward Teshmaker Busk. Unit: Royal Engineers. Death: 05 November 1914 Aldershot
Died 5 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Frederick Ralph George. Unit: Adjutant, 1st Battalion, Connaught Rangers. Death: 5 November 1914, Western Front.
Died 5 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Noel George Scott McGrath. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays). Death: 05 November 1914 Wounded Messines died Boulogne Western Front
Died 5 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lt Nepean, who was born at Hatfield in Hertfordshire and educated at Winchester College, enlisted in the London Scottish Regiment on 5 November 1914. He received his commission in April 1915 and was posted to the Western Front with the Royal Scots Fusili
Died 5 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Arthur Rudolph Fleming 85. Unit: 1st Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 5 November 1916, Somme, Western Front.
Died 5 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lance Sergeant Wallis Smith 12295. Unit: C Company, 7th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 05 November 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 5 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Albert Edward Lampit 3195. Unit: C Coy, 27th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 05 November 1916 Western Front
Died 5 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Albert Walter King 6206/302911. Unit: 1st/8th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Death: 05 November 1916 missing, Western Front.
Died 5 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Charles Melvin King 3186. Unit: 27th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 05 November 1916 Western Front.
Died 5 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Charles Milton Illingworth 6098. Unit: 1st/8th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Death: 05 November 1916 Western Front.
Died 5 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Harold Kaye 6138/301793. Unit: 1st/8th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Death: 05 November 1916 Missing on the Ancre, Western Front.
Died 5 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Joseph James Lanyon 84. Unit: 1st Battalion, late 3rd Divisional Cycling Corps, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 05 November 1916 Western Front
Died 5 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private L. C. Allmond 4370. Unit: 27th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 5 November 1916, Somme, Western Front.
Died 5 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private William Harris 3355. Unit: 1st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 5 November 1916, killed in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 5 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Harold Fell. Unit: 6th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Death: 5 November 1916, Somme, Western Front.
Died 5 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Harold James Thomas Bannehr. Unit: 7th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Death: 5 November 1916, missing, Bapaume, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 5 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Terence Hargreaves Mitchel. Unit: 2nd/5th Battalion, Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry, attached to 145th Company (48th Division), Machine Gun Corps. Death: 05 November 1916 Somme Western Front
Died 5 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Victor Pinnington. Unit: 33rd (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion, attached to 23rd (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 05 November 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 5 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
THE OCCUPATION OF THE RUSSIAN PARTITION OF POLAND BY THE CENTRAL POWERS, 1915-1918
5 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain John Dow. Unit: Indian Medical Service, Indian Army. Death: 05 November 1918 Persia. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dow, of Mayne Rd., Elgin, Morayshire.
Died 5 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Geoffrey Simpson Lamont DSO. Unit: 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 05 November 1918 Western Front
Died 5 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Geoffrey Simpson Lamont DSO. Unit: 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 05 November 1918 Western Front
Died 5 November 1918
Imperial War Museum