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 Thomas Hector Hughes. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 15 October 1914, killed in action near the village of Richebourg St Vaast, Western Front.
Died 15 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Donald Roy MacDonald. Unit: HMS Hawke, Royal Navy. Death: 15 October 1914 Drowned HMS Hawke North Sea
Died 15 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private H A Baker. Unit: 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 15 October 1914 Western Front
Died 15 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private Walter James Mann 1150. Unit: 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 15 October 1914 Western Front
Died 15 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Nurse Mabel E Chadwick, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Died of enteric fever contracted on duty in Egypt 15 October 1915.
Died 15 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Alfred Thomas Beck 70392. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment). Death: 15 October 1915 Western Front
Died 15 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Frank King 1234. Unit: D Company, 23rd Battalion, 6th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 15 October 1915 Gallipoli, Dardanelles. Son of Arthur William and Christina King. Born at Collingwood, Victoria.
Died 15 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Fred Turton 32665. Unit: 8th Platoon, BCompany, 2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Death: 15 October 1915 Missing in action Western Frotn
Died 15 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Douglas Alexander Simpson. Unit: 1st/7th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 15 October 1915 Died of wounds received in action in France Western Front
Died 15 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Hubert Edmund Backhouse. Unit: Special Reserve of Officers, attached to 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derbyshire Regiment). Death: 15 October 1916 Killed in action at Gueudecourt Western Front
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Hubert Edmund Backhouse. Unit: Special Reserve of Officers, attached to the 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Death: 15 October 1916, missing, Gueudecourt, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepv
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Major Edmund Rochfort Street DSO. Unit: 3rd Battalion attached to 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment). Death: 15 October 1916 Western Front
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Edward Thomas Hogan 1660. Unit: 55th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 15 October 1916, died of wounds, Western Front.
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Thomas Booth Lister S/23831. Unit: 5th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. Death: 15 October 1916 Wounded and Missing Western Front
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Laurence Millais Kinsley. Unit: 11th Battalion, Essex Regiment. Death: 15 October 1916 wounded and missing at Guendecourt, Western Front. Son of Albert and Eliza Kinsley, of 46, Anson Rd., Tufnell Park, London.
Died 15 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Anthony Percival MID. Unit: 95th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, transferred to 14th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment in 1915. Death: 15 October 1917 Western Front
Died 15 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
THE OCCUPATION OF THE RUSSIAN PARTITION OF POLAND BY THE CENTRAL POWERS, 1915-1918
15 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Commander Evan Campbell Bunbury. Unit: His Majesty's Coastal Motor Boat No 71A, Director of Transport and Movements Department, Admiralty. Death: 15 October 1918 At Sea
Died 15 October 1918
Imperial War Museum