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 Reginald Alfred Faire , Leicestershire Regiment
Died 14 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
HMS Barham (1914). Scale 1:96. A plan showing half-hull sections of the Queen Elizabeth class battleship HMS Barham (1914). The drawing has been heavily annotated to reflect the ship's peacetime alterations carried out at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1921,
14 October 1915
National Maritime Museum
HMS Barham (1914). Scale 1:96. A plan showing the inboard profile of the Queen Elizabeth class battleship HMS Barham (1914). The drawing has been heavily annotated to reflect the ship's peacetime alterations carried out at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1921
14 October 1915
National Maritime Museum
HMS Barham (1914). Scale 1:96. A plan showing the upper and main decks of the Queen Elizabeth class battleship HMS Barham (1914). The drawing has been heavily annotated to reflect the ship's peacetime alterations carried out at Portsmouth Dockyard in
14 October 1915
National Maritime Museum
Lance Corporal Percy Ernest Fray L/10041, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
Died 14 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Major Colin Napier Buchanan-Dunlop DSO , Royal Horse Artillery
Died 14 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Major Colin Napier Buchanan-Dunlop DSO. Unit: "F" Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, attached to the 12th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 14 October 1915, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 14 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Archibald George Slee 2592, London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 14 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Basil Leonard Bilcliffe 2319, London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 14 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Ernest Elworthy G/5349, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 14 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Reginald Herbert Constant Hurst 2462, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 14 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas William Davis GS/474, 6th Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 14 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Walter Henry Domoney 2568, London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 14 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private William Edwards 20507, Worcestershire Regiment
Died 14 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private William John Pavier GS/945, Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 14 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Seaman James Patrick Curran 1604/X, Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve
Died 14 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Alexander William Knight , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 14 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Charles Gordon Oliver , Devonshire Regiment attached Yorkshire Regiment
Died 14 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Edward Stanley Strachan , Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 14 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Frederick William Walters , Lincolnshire Regiment
Died 14 October 1915
Lives of the First World War