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!
Corporal Robert William Pitt 1210, Durham Light Infantry
Died 5 November 1916
Lives of the First World War
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 Ambrose Austwick 5741, Durham Light Infantry
Died 5 November 1916
Lives of the First World War
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 Peter Cameron S/22262, Queens's Own Cameron Highlanders
Died 5 November 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Richard Williams 35499, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 5 November 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas William Crofts 11720, The Cheshire Regiment
Died 5 November 1916
Lives of the First World War
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
Rifleman Cyril Clarence Adcock 25329, Lincolnshire Regiment
Died 5 November 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Harold Fell , Durham Light Infantry
Died 5 November 1916
Lives of the First World War
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 John Feetham Green , Durham Light Infantry
Died 5 November 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Martin De Carle Jackson , Royal Field Artillery
Died 5 November 1916
Lives of the First World War
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 Thomas Forster Applegarth , Durham Light Infantry
Died 5 November 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Victor Pinnington , Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 5 November 1916
Lives of the First World War