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 Anthony Morris Coats Hewat. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment). Death: 8 September 1914, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 8 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Charles Antoine de Guerry Dalglish. Unit: 1st Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Death: 08 September 1914 Died of wounds received at Sablonnieres Western Front
Died 8 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain John Kenneth Tulloch Whish. Unit: 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. Death: 08 September 1914 Killed in Action during the Battle of the Marne. Western Front
Died 8 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain John Norwood VC. Unit: (Reserve of Officers), 2nd Battalion, County of London Yeomanry, Attached to 5th Battalion, Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s). Death: 08 September 1914 Killed in action during the Battle of the Marne. Western
Died 8 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Robert Charles Partridge. Unit: 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) Dragoon Guards. Death: 08 September 1914 Western Front
Died 8 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Robert Charles Partridge. Unit: 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) Dragoon Guards. Death: 08 September 1914 Western Front
Died 8 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Thomas Scatchard. Unit: Royal Army Medical Corps. Death: 08 September 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 8 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Ewen Holmes Humphrey James Wilson. Unit: 1st Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Death: 08 September 1914 At Sablonnieres 1 Battle of the Marne Western Front
Died 8 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant John Bloomfield Gough. Unit: "D" Battery, Royal Horse Artillery. Death: 8 September 1914, Western Front.
Died 8 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Lionel Streatfeild Woodgate MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Kings Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Death: 08 September 1914 Killed in Action while leading his Company at La Ferte Western Front
Died 8 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Ronald Elphinstone Parker. Unit: D Battery, Royal Horse Artillery. Death: 08 September 1914 Western Front
Died 8 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS AND THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 1914 - 1918: SERVING OFFICERS AND MEN
8 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant H V Lyon. Unit: Royal Navy. Landed At Kutchuk Tchemedge from submarine 8 September 1915 Dardenelles
Died 8 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Sapper Harry Horne 42613. Unit: 67th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 8 September 1915, missing in action, Gallipoli, Dardanelles. Commemorated on the Helles Memorial.
Died 8 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Beaumont Burnaby DSO. Unit: 11th Battalion, the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 8 September 1916, Mametz, Somme, Western Front.
Died 8 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Eynon George Arthur Bowen. Unit: Royal Garrison Artillery, attached to 22nd Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 8 September 1916, Western Front. Commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial.
Died 8 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Archibald Arthur Tindal. Unit: 177th Brigade, Royal Field Artilley. Death: 08 September 1916 Western Front
Died 8 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Balfour Ireland. Unit: 9th Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Death: 08 September 1916 Western Front.
Died 8 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Roderick Kyrle Matheson. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), attached 20th Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Death: 08 September 1916 Western Front
Died 8 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private John Edward Newton served with 20th (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He was from Gateshead. His service number was 16/1379. He was killed in action on 8 September 1917 aged 33. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memoria
Died 8 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
Staff Nurse Ella K Cook, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Killed in a street accident in Alexandria 08 September 1917.
Died 8 September 1917
Imperial War Museum