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!
Able Seaman Frederick George Castellano 203957, HMS Victorious
Died 6 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
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 , Irish Guards
Died 6 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
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 The Hon. Arthur Edward Bruce O'Neill, M.P. , 2nd Life Guards
Died 6 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
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
Drummer Arthur William Foster 10729, South Wales Borderers
Died 6 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Joseph Revely 11376, Durham Light Infantry
Died 6 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Carleton Wyndham Tufnell , 2nd Grenadier Guards
Died 6 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
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 Pierce Creagh Jenings , King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Died 6 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
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 Edward Hawtin Phillips, D.S.O. , Royal Field Artillery, 28th Battery, Meerut Division, Indian Expeditionary Force
Died 6 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
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
Major The Hon. Hugh Dawnay, D.S.O. , 2nd Life Guards
Died 6 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Major, M.V.O Gordon Chesney Wilson Off / 30, Royal Horse Guards
Died 6 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur Leonard Dale 10724, South Wales Borderers
Died 6 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Arthur Roddis 11648, Grenadier Guards
Died 6 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Emil Jacks Taylor 8462, South Wales Borderers
Died 6 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private John Rowland Sewell 9243, South Wales Borderers
Died 6 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
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
Rifleman Thomas Smith 5685, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 6 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
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 Interpreter Baron Alexis De Gunzburg , Royal Horse Guards
Died 6 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Leonard Pengelly Waghorn , Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 6 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
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 , Life Guards
Died 6 November 1914
Lives of the First World War