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 Arthur Edward Jeune Collins , Royal Engineers
Died 11 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Arthur Edward Jeune Collins MID. Unit: 5th Field Comapany, Royal Engineers. Death: 11 November 1914 Killed in action at Polygon Wood near Ypres Western Front
Died 11 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Arthur Kenneth Puzey. Unit: 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, (City of London Regiment). Death: 11 November 1914 Western Front
Died 11 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Hugh James Shaw. Unit: 5th Battalion, attachedto 1st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Death: 11 November 1914 Killed by a collapsed trench while sleeping Western Front.
Died 11 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Thomas Cecil De Trafford. Unit: 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 11 November 1914 Wounded and missing in action near Ypres Western Front.
Died 11 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain William Augustus Portman Foster , South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 11 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain William Elmer Reymes-Cole DSO. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 11 November 1914
Died 11 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain William Elmer Reymes-Cole, D.S.O. , 2nd Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers
Died 11 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Edward Ivor Evans 10539, South Wales Borderers
Died 11 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Brian Osborne. Unit: 15th (The King’s) Hussars. Death: 11 November 1914 Western Front
Died 11 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Norman Reginald McMahon DSO MID. Unit: General Staff, HQ 10th Infantry Brigade, Commanding 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Death: 11 November 1914 Western Front
Died 11 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Norman Reginald McMahon DSO MID. Unit: General Staff, HQ 10th Infantry Brigade, Commanding 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Death: 11 November 1914 Western Front
Died 11 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Norman Reginald McMahon, D.S.O. , 4th Royal Fusiliers
Died 11 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Frank Alexander Riplingille. Unit: 1st Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, attached to 2nd Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment). Death: 11 November 1914 At Ypres close toma Chateau 400 yards north of Menin Road near Veldhoek
Died 11 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Henry Ivanhoe Vandell , Northamptonshire Regiment
Died 11 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Henry Ivanhoe Vandell. Unit: Reserve of officers, attad. 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment. Death: 11 November 1914 Near Ypres Western Front
Died 11 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant John Richards Homfray , South Wales Borderers
Died 11 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant John Richards Homfray. Unit: 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers. Death: 11 November 1914, killed in action at Zillebeke, Western Front.
Died 11 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant William Augustus Portman Foster. Unit: 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 11 November 1914, Western Front.
Died 11 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Harold Henry Norman. Unit: Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Death: 11 November 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 11 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Richard Ducat , 20th Duke of Cambridge's Own Infantry (Brownlow's Punjabis)
Died 11 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Frank Bromilow 7108, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
Died 11 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick Shipton 8343, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 11 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private G W Adams 6905. Unit: 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 11 November 1914 Missing in action Western Front
Died 11 November 1914
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Private Robert Aikman 8025. Unit: 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 11 November 1914 Missing in action Western Front
Died 11 November 1914
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Private Thomas W Johnson 6281. Unit: B Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Death: 11 November 1914 Western Front.
Died 11 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Sapper Norman Harrop Fish 21762, 5th Field Company Royal Engineers
Died 11 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Alfred Godffrey Newnham. Unit: 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 11 November 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 11 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Donald Williamson Rennie. Unit: 5th Battalion, Royal Fusilers (City of London Regiment), attached to 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 11 November 1914 Armentieres Western Front
Died 11 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant George Herbert Vacher , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 11 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant George Herbert Vacher. Unit: 4th (atached 2nd) Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 11 November 1914 Near Zandvoorde Western Front
Died 11 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Henry Frederick Thornton Renny-Tailyour , Royal Engineers
Died 11 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Henry Frederick Thornton Renny-Tailyour MID. Unit: Royal Engineers. Death: 11 November 1914 Ypres Western Front
Died 11 November 1914
Imperial War Museum