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 William Henry King 38260, Royal Horse Artillery
Died 12 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Archibald Bertram Priestley. Unit: 1st Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion, Nigeria Regiment, West African Frontier Force. Death: 12 September 1914 Western Front
Died 12 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Bertrand Stewart. Unit: West Kent (Queen’s Own) Yeomanry, attached to Intelligence Corps on the Staff of Major-General Allenby, commanding the Cavalry Division of the B.E.F.. Death: 12 September 1914 Killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne W
Died 12 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Edward Gerald Mytton Thornycroft , King's African Rifles
Died 12 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain George Patrick Osborn Springfield , Dragoon Guards
Died 12 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain George Patrick Osborn Springfield. Unit: 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays). Death: 12 September 1914 Killed in action at Braine, France, while reconnoitring in the town looking for snipers Western Front
Died 12 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Arthur Francis Henderson , 27th Light Cavalry
Died 12 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Major Arthur Francis Henderson. Unit: 27th Light Cavalry, Indian Army, attached as GSO2 to General Hubert Gough. Death: 12 September 1914, killed in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Neuve-Chapelle Memorial.
Died 12 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Eric Vickers Tindall , King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 12 September 1914
Lives of the First World War