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 Angus Virtue Makant , Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 14 March 1915
Lives of the First World War
Captain Cyril Gerald Valerian Wellesley , Lincolnshire Regiment
Died 14 March 1915
Lives of the First World War
GRAVE OF THE 2ND EAST LANCASHIRE REGIMENT WHO WERE KILLED BY ONE SHELL ON 14TH MARCH 1915, DURING A RIFLE INSPECTION AT THE ROUGE CROIX CROSS ROADS ON THE LAS BASSEE ROAD
14 March 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant (Temporary) Herbert Wicksted Ethelston. Unit: 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 14 March 1915 Neuve Chapelle Western Front.
Died 14 March 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Alfred Francis Bate. Unit: 4th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, attached to 2nd Battalion, Leinster Regiment. Death: 14 March 1915 Western Front
Died 14 March 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Augustine Robinson. Unit: 4th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, attached to 2nd Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Death: 14 March 1915 At Neuve Chapelle Western Front
Died 14 March 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Derwent Christopher Turnbull , Royal Army Medical Corps attached Cheshire Regiment
Died 14 March 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Ronald Mosley Aston. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Death: 14 March 1915 St Eloi Western Front
Died 14 March 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Thomond Edward O'Bryen Horsford. Unit: 2nd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 14 March 1915, killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, Western Front.
Died 14 March 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Thomond Edward O'Bryen Horsford. Unit: 2nd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 14 March 1915, killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, Western Front.
Died 14 March 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant William Gray Rawlinson. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. Death: 14 March 1915 St Eloi Western Front
Died 14 March 1915
Imperial War Museum
Major Alexander Henry Campbell MacGregor. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Princess Victoria’s (Royal Irish Fusiliers). Death: 14 March 1915 St Eloi Ypres Western Front
Died 14 March 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Alexander Buchan 42502, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 14 March 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Alfred Ferdinand Silvester 2895, London Regiment
Died 14 March 1915
Lives of the First World War
Rear Admiral William John Grogan , HM Yacht Saphire II
Died 14 March 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Ronald Hugh Carden. Unit: Attached to 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 14 March 1915 Killed in action Neuve Chapelle Western Front
Died 14 March 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant William Laurence Breese , Royal Horse Guards
Died 14 March 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant William Lawrence Breese. Unit: Royal Horse Guards. Death: 14 March 1915 St Omer Western Front. Husband of Julia F. Breese, of Garrison-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
Died 14 March 1915
Imperial War Museum
SMS Dresden (1907) at Juan Fernandez Island after surrender.. A port quarter view of the German protected cruiser SMS Dresden (1907) in Cumberland Bay, Juan Fernandez Island. A white flag of surrender is flying from the foremast. The photograph was take
14 March 1915
National Maritime Museum