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!
Bombardier Alfred Priestley 27830, Royal Field Artillery
Died 8 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Alick Lancelot Prince , Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 8 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
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 Frederick Cleave Strickland Dunlop , Manchester Regiment
Died 8 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
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 Hugh Mortimer Travers, D.S.O. , 5th Royal Munster Fusiliers attached 2nd Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regime
Died 8 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
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 , 1st Northamptonshire Regiment attached Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 8 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
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
Major Charles Godfrey Mitford Slade , West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
Died 8 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Herbert Draper 6201, Leicestershire Regiment
Died 8 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private John McMahon 6486, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Died 8 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Robert Gray PLY/12773, Royal Marine Light Infantry
Died 8 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas William Teare 471, Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 8 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Victor Samuel Bellamy L/9977, East Kent Regiment
Died 8 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private William Ernest Fryer or Friar 7168, Scots Guards
Died 8 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private William Lewington 2973, Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 8 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
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