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 Edward Bruce O’Neill. Unit: A Squadron, 2nd Life Guards. Death: 06 November 1914 Western Front
Died 6 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Arthur John Hamilton. Unit: 1st Battalion, Irish Guards. Death: 6 November 1914, Ypres, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 6 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Arthur John Hamilton. Unit: 1st Battalion, Irish Guards. Death: 6 November 1914, Ypres, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 6 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Clive MacDonnell Dixon. Unit: 16th (The Queen's) Lancers. Death: 06 November 1914 Killed in action near Ypres Western Front.
Died 6 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Edward Charles Stafford-King-Harman. Unit: 1st Battalion, Irish Guards. Death: 06 November 1914 Killed in action at Klein Zillebeke Western Front
Died 6 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Norman Neill. Unit: Brugade-Major, 13th Hussars, 6th Cavalry Brigade, 3rd Cavalry Division. Death: 06 November 1914 Killed in action near Klein Zillebeke Western Front
Died 6 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain William Reginald Wyndham. Unit: Lincolnshire Yeomanry, attached to 1st Life Guards. Death: 06 November 1914 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 6 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Carleton Wyndham Tufnell. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 06 November 1914 Killed in action near Ypres Western Front
Died 6 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant George Pierse Creagh Jenings. Unit: 1st Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Death: 06 November 1914 Western Front.
Died 6 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant George Pierse Creagh Jenings. Unit: 1st Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Death: 6 November 1914, Western Front.
Died 6 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant George William Houghton Hodgson. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 6 November 1914, died of wounds in Boulogne hospital, Western Front.
Died 6 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Neville Leslie Woodroffe MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, Irish Guards. Death: 06 November 1914 Killed in Action attacking the German trenches near Ypres. Western Front
Died 6 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant William Edward Hope. Unit: 1st Battalion, Irish Guards. Death: 6 November 1914, missing in action at Klein Zillebeke, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 6 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Edward Hawtin Phillips DSO. Unit: 28th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 06 November 1914 Western Front
Died 6 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Hugh Dawnay DSO MID. Unit: 2nd Life Guards. Death: 06 November 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 6 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private Michael Curry 2508. Unit: 1st Battalion, Irish Guards. Death: 06 November 1914 Missing in action Western Front
Died 6 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private William Brennock 3258. Unit: 3rd Company, 1st Battalion, Irish Guards. Death: 06 November 1914 Klein Zillebeke Western Front
Died 6 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private William Patrick Mulholland 2280. Unit: 1st Company, 1st Battalion, Irish Guards. Death: 06 November 1914 Missing at Klein Zillebeke Western Front
Died 6 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Alexis George De Gunzburg. Unit: 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars, attached to Royal Horse Guards (7th Cavalry Brigade) as Galloper and Interpreter. Death: 06 November 1914 Killed in action near Ypres Western Front.
Died 6 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Leonard Pengelly Waghorn. Unit: 3rd Battalion, The Queens Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), attached to 1st Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Death: 06 November 1914 Killed in Action at Ypres Western Front
Died 6 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant William Sinclair Petersen. Unit: Royal Horse Artillery, attached to 2nd Life Guards. Death: 06 November 1914 Western Front
Died 6 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Theodore Wright Crewdson. Unit: 20th Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Death: 06 November 1916 Died of wounds recevied on the 28 October 1916 Western Front
Died 6 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Edward Matthew Holland. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 6 November 1916, missing in action, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 6 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Mrs Kathleen Buckeridge, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of illness accentuated by overwork 06 November 1916.
Died 6 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Gordon Joyce 1740. Unit: 28th Battalion, 7th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: Between 03 November and 06 November 1916 Western Front.
Died 6 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Rifleman H Smith B/203413. Unit: Lewis Gun Section, A Company, 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Death: 06 November 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 6 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Edward William Walker DSO. Unit: 1st/7th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Death: 06 November 1917 Killed in Action Israel (Beersheba)
Died 6 November 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal John James Marsh 1707. Unit: 5th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 06 November 1917 Palestine
Died 6 November 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Stuart Gordon MacPherson 5708. Unit: B Company, 3rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 06 November 1917 Western Front
Died 6 November 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain Charles Eric Douglas Dubs. Unit: 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own). Death: 06 November 1918 United Kindom. Son of Mrs. J. M. Wallace, of Cloncaird Castle, Maybole, Ayrshire.
Died 6 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant James Alexander Hedderwick. Unit: 56th Anti-Aircraft Company, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 6 November 1918.
Died 6 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
Miss Marjorie Allom, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of pneumonia contracted on duty 06 November 1918.
Died 6 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
Muslimie. The Baghdad Railway : 'The vital point', looking north. The line branches and the section to the left goes to Constantinople, and that to the right to Baghdad.
6 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
EVACUATION OF POLISH CIVILIANS FROM THE SOVIET UNION TO PERSIA, 1942
6 November 1942
Imperial War Museum
EVACUATION OF POLISH CIVILIANS FROM THE SOVIET UNION TO PERSIA, 1942
6 November 1942
Imperial War Museum
EVACUATION OF POLISH CIVILIANS FROM THE SOVIET UNION TO PERSIA, 1942
6 November 1942
Imperial War Museum
EVACUATION OF POLISH CIVILIANS FROM THE SOVIET UNION TO PERSIA, 1942
6 November 1942
Imperial War Museum
EVACUATION OF POLISH CIVILIANS FROM THE SOVIET UNION TO PERSIA, 1942
6 November 1942
Imperial War Museum