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 Alick Lancelot Prince. Unit: 1st Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Death: 08 November 1914 Western Front
Died 8 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Hugh Mortimer Travers DSO. Unit: 5th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers, Attached to 2nd Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment). Death: 08 November 1914 Killed in action near Hooge Western Front
Died 8 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Robert Sym Wilson QMKM. Unit: 1st Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. Death: 08 November 1914 Western Front
Died 8 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain William Maynard Carlisle Crowe. Unit: Reserve of Officers, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Death: 08 November 1914 Killed in action near Ypres Western Front
Died 8 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Archibald William John Joseph Douglas-Dick. Unit: 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: Between 08/11/1914 and 11/11/1914 Missing in action at Veldhoek Western Front.
Died 8 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Francis Algernon Monckton. Unit: 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 08 November 1914 Western Front
Died 8 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant John Charles Reginald Rose. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Princess Louise’s (Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders). Death: 08 November 1914 Accidentally shot in trenches near Ypres Western Front
Died 8 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Lionel Douglas Waud MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Death: 08 November 1914 Killed in Action Near Armentieres Western Front
Died 8 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Wilfred Stanislaus Stapleton-Bretherton. Unit: 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 08 November 1914 Wounded near Ypres-Menin, missing Western Front
Died 8 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Charles Godfray Mitford Slade. Unit: 4th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wale’s Own), attached to 1st Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Death: 08 November 1914 Killed in action
Died 8 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Gerard Rupert Laurie Anderson MID. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. Death: 08 November 1914 La Bassee Western Front
Died 8 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Thomas James Brundrit. Unit: 5th Australian Light Horse Regiment, 2nd Light Horse Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 November 1915 Gallipoli Dardanelles. Son of William and Catherine Brundrit. Native of Brisbane, Queensland.
Died 8 November 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Kenneth Theodore Dunbar Wilcox. Unit: 8th Battalion, The Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 08 November 1915 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 8 November 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Frank Raymond James 5217. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 November 1916 Western Front.
Died 8 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Edwin John Byrne 4780. Unit: 18th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 8 November 1916, killed in action at Flers, Somme, Western Front.
Died 8 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Irvin Preston Waterhouse. Unit: 10th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Waless Own). Death: 08 November 1916 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 8 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Angus Buchanan VC MC. Unit: 4th Battalion, South Wales Borderers.
8 November 1917
Imperial War Museum
Sapper Clive Gordon Clarke 109. Unit: 1st Divisional Signal Company, Headquarters Section, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 November 1917 Killed in action while dispatch riding through Ypres Western Front
Died 8 November 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain Arthur Edward Stehn MID twice. Unit: 4th Battalion, attached to 10th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 08 November 1918 Killed in action at Malplaquet, leading his Company against an enemy machine-gun nest. Western Front
Died 8 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
Florence Warren, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of illness contracted on duty 08 November 1918.
Died 8 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
Florence Warren, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of illness contracted on duty 08 November 1918.
Died 8 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant T M Cummins. Unit: 4th South African Infantry, attached to 3rd Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers). Death: 08 November 1918
Died 8 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private George Jaffray Margerison 85178. Unit: 18th (Lancashire Hussars) Battalion, The Kings (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 08 November 1918 Western Front
Died 8 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
Sister Elizabeth A Adams, Joint War Committee. Died of pneumonia contracted on duty 08 November 1918.
Died 8 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
Sister Elizabeth A Adams, Joint War Committee. Died of pneumonia contracted on duty 08 November 1918.
Died 8 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
Sister Elizabeth A Adams, Joint War Committee. Died of pneumonia contracted on duty 08 November 1918.
Died 8 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
THE PROCLAMATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIAN INDEPENDENCE, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1918
8 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
THE PROCLAMATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIAN INDEPENDENCE, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1918
8 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
THE PROCLAMATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIAN INDEPENDENCE, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1918
8 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
THE PROCLAMATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIAN INDEPENDENCE, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1918
8 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
THE PROCLAMATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIAN INDEPENDENCE, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1918
8 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
THE PROCLAMATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIAN INDEPENDENCE, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1918
8 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
THE PROCLAMATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIAN INDEPENDENCE, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1918
8 November 1918
Imperial War Museum