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 John Francis Hodgkinson. Unit: 3rd (Prince of Wales's Own) Dragoon Guards. Death: 10 November 1914, died of wounds in hospital at Boulogne, Western Front.
Died 10 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain William Alexander Henderson , Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Died 10 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain William Alexander Henderson. Unit: "D" Company, 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Death: 10 November 1914, Western Front. Commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial.
Died 10 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain William Charles Rait Kerr DSO. Unit: Royal Field Artillery. Death: 10 November 1914 Near VeldhoekYpres Western Front.
Died 10 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain William Charles Rait Kerr, D.S.O. , Royal Field Artillery
Died 10 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
FIRST WORLD WAR SERVICE OF ALBERT LASLETT, THE RIFLE BRIGADE AND ARMY SERVICE CORPS
10 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Cecil Victor Powell Cornelius , Welsh Regiment
Died 10 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Cecil Victor Powell Cornelius. Unit: Reserve of Officers; 3rd Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Death: 10 November 1914 Killed in action at Klein Zillebeke near Ypres Western Front
Died 10 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Douglas Fenton De Wend , 2nd Battalion West Riding Regiment
Died 10 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Douglas Fenton De Wend. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). Death: 10 November 1914 to 11 November 1914 Killed in action fighting the Prussian Guard at the First Battle of Ypres Western Front
Died 10 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Gordon Stuart Ness. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Attached to 1st Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Death: 10 November 1914 to 11 November 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 10 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Henry Blight Fortescue Parnell MID. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 10 November 1914 Western Front
Died 10 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Lord Henry Bligh Fortescue Parnell, Fifth Baron Congleton , Grenadier Guards
Died 10 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Michael George Stocks , Grenadier Guards
Died 10 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Michael George Stocks. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 10 November 1914 Killed in action in the trenches near Ypres. Western Front
Died 10 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Norman William Arthur Henderson , Royal Scots Fusiliers
Died 10 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Norman William Arthur Henderson. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Death: 10 November 1914, killed in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 10 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Bernard Charles Gordon-Lennox. Unit: 2nd Company, 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 10 November 1914, killed in action at Zillebeke, Western Front.
Died 10 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Lord Bernard Charles Gordon-Lennox , Grenadier Guards
Died 10 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Alfred Frederick Leonard 14528, Grenadier Guards
Died 10 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Henry Breddy 8761, South Wales Borderers
Died 10 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Henry Swindlehurst 6804, South Wales Borderers
Died 10 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Samuel Linney 8372. Unit: 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Death: 10 November 1914 Missing
Died 10 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private Thomas Lemuel Jones 3259, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 10 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant John Lennox Fetherstonhaugh. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Death: 10 November 1914, Ypres, Western Front.
Died 10 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Serjeant Vernon Robert Campbell 9302, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Died 10 November 1914
Lives of the First World War