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 Hugh Russell Eliott , Worcestershire Regiment
Died 12 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Hugh Russell Eliott. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 12 October 1914 Western Front.
Died 12 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Alexander Nigel Trotter. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached 2nd Battalion, the Royal Scots. Death: 12 October 1914 Western Front
Died 12 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Alfred Northey MID. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 12 October 1914 Killed in action at Richebourg St.Vaast Western Front
Died 12 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Francis Ellison Levita. Unit: 4th Queens Own Hussars. Death: 12 October 1914
Died 12 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Frank Glencairn De Burgh Edwards , Royal Horse Artillery
Died 12 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Frank Glencairn De Burgh Edwards. Unit: I Battery, 12th Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery. Death: 12 October 1914 Western Front.
Died 12 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Gerald Wilson Bentley. Unit: 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 12 October 1914 Croix Barbee Western Front
Died 12 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major John Kirwan Gatacre. Unit: 11th King's Own Lancers (Probyn's Horse), Indian Army, attached to the 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars. Death: 12 October 1914, Mont des Cats, Western Front. Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
Died 12 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Reginald Trevor Roper MID. Unit: 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment. Death: 12 October 1914 near Pontefixe Western Front
Died 12 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major William Lewis Campbell Allan , King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died 12 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Charles Ockley Bell , Bedfordshire Regiment
Died 12 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Charles Ockley Bell. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 12 October 1914 Killed in action Western Front. Son of Alfred Frederick and Sarah Susanna Bell.
Died 12 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Charles Ockley Bell. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 12 October 1914 Le Touret Western Front. Son of Alfred Frederick and Sarah Susanna Bell.
Died 12 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Charles Stephenson Woollcombe , King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died 12 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Charles Stephenson Woollcombe. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. Death: 12 October 1914 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 12 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Nigel John Lawson Boyd , Royal Highlanders
Died 12 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Nigel John Lawson Boyd. Unit: 1st Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Death: 12 October 1914 From wounds received Aisne Western Front
Died 12 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Sidney Harcourt Coles. Unit: 6th Battalion, attached to 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 12 October 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 12 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Wilfred Methven Brownlee, MM , Dorsetshire Regiment
Died 12 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant William MacKinnon MacNeill. Unit: 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers, Special Reserve. Death: 12 October 1914 Western Front
Died 12 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE TO FRANCE, AUGUST-OCTOBER 1914
12 October 1914
Imperial War Museum