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 Roland Ivor Gough, DSO , The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 14 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Herbert Tozer 4887. Unit: 2nd/4th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. Death: 14 October 1916 Died in hospital at Dalhousie India India
Died 14 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal John Eleazar Garnant Davies 6961, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Died 14 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Alec James McLaren 3867. Unit: 8th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 14 October 1916 Western Front
Died 14 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Charles Alfred Chappell DM2/165925, Army Service Corps
Died 14 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick Clifford 11669, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 14 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private George Leonard Arber 2280, Cambridgeshire Regiment
Died 14 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Harry Adams 2537, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 14 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Robert Beaver 15515, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 14 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Robert Bonsall 18580, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Died 14 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private William Carter 1691/325311. Unit: "A" Company, 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Death: 14 October 1916, missing, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 14 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Oswald Carr Fiennes Elliott , Gordon Highlanders
Died 14 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Vincent Brotherton , West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
Died 14 October 1916
Lives of the First World War