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!
Boy Artificer Frank Ernest Swanne M33203, H.M.S. "Fisgard"
Died 9 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Company Quarter Master Sergeant James Arthur McDermott 15460, Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Died 9 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Gervase Winford Stovin Alington, MM 766852, London Regiment
Died 9 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Gunner William Arter Curry 122107, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 9 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Charles Henry Grix G/30733. Unit: 8th Battalion, Queens Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Death: 09 October 1918, Cambrai, Western Front.
Died 9 October 1918
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Thomas Orr 3/6877, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Died 9 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Alfred Hartley , Royal Garrison Artillery 263rd Siege Battery
Died 9 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant John Howard Cooke. Unit: Army Service Corps, Mechanical Transport, attached to Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 09 October 1918.
Died 9 October 1918
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant William George Gresham Leveson-Gower , Coldstream Guards
Died 9 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Matilda E Green, Canadian Army Medical Corps. Died of pneumonia in Etaples 09 October 1918.
Died 9 October 1918
Imperial War Museum
Matilda E Green, Canadian Army Medical Corps. Died of pneumonia in Etaples 09 October 1918.
Died 9 October 1918
Imperial War Museum
Nursing Sister Matilda Ethel Green , Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 9 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Petty Officer Stoker Reginald Homeyard 308897, H.M.S. "Victory"
Died 9 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private George Frederick Day 44973, Durham Light Infantry 23rd Infantry Battalion
Died 9 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private George McNaughton 2420A, Australian Infantry,
Died 9 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private George Saxton 242369, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Died 9 October 1918
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Private Harold Richard Ackrill 40932, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 9 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Henry Frederick Walker SR/6554, King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Died 9 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Robert William Barber G/24512, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Died 9 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Humphrey 33438, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 9 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Walter Rippon 76502, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
Died 9 October 1918
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Private William Edgar Holmes VC 16796, Grenadier Guards
Died 9 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Alexander Gissing , South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 9 October 1918
Lives of the First World War