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 Charles Herbert Thomas , South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 5 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Graham de Montmorency Armstrong-Lushington-Tulloch , Connaught Rangers
Died 5 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
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 , Bedfordshire Regiment attached Lincolnshire Regiment
Died 5 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
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 , Leinster Regiment
Died 5 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
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 , Connaught Rangers
Died 5 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
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 , Dragoon Guards
Died 5 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
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
Private Alfred Horace Dray 11842, Durham Light Infantry
Died 5 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Edward James Bettis 10019, South Wales Borderers
Died 5 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Seth William George Spooner L/9185, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Died 5 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private William Victor Lloyd 3/9293, South Wales Borderers (Special Reserve)
Died 5 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Arthur George Payne 7235, South Wales Borderers
Died 5 November 1914
Lives of the First World War