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!
Boy First Class Albert John Payne J/27539, HMS Hawke
Died 15 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Thomas Hector Hughes , Worcestershire Regiment
Died 15 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal John Collins 10866, Royal Irish Regiment
Died 15 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles William Whitehead CH/9373, Royal Marine Light Infantry - HMS Hawke
Died 15 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Joseph Lewis CH/7208, Royal Marine Light Infantry - HMS Hawke
Died 15 October 1914
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Private Michael Quinlisk 10747, Royal Irish Regiment
Died 15 October 1914
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Private Patrick Michael Casey 9780, Royal Irish Regiment
Died 15 October 1914
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Stoker 1st Class Nathaniel Agnew SS105083, HMS Hawke
Died 15 October 1914
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Stoker 2nd Class James Alfred Ager K/19331, HMS Hawke
Died 15 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Major Walter Harry Nichols , Somerset Light Infantry
Died 15 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Nurse Mabel Elizabeth Chadwick 5719, Voluntary Aid Detachment, 17th General Hospital
Died 15 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Frederick Picking 9126, South Wales Borderers
Died 15 October 1915
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Private Herbert James Streeter 8972, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 15 October 1915
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Corporal William E R Braddock 4744, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 15 October 1916
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Lieutenant Hubert Edmund Backhouse , Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Died 15 October 1916
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Major Edmund Rochfort Street, D.S.O. , Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 15 October 1916
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Private Alan Gascoigne 20717, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 15 October 1916
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Private Ernest Charles Nicholls 10967, Essex Regiment
Died 15 October 1916
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Private George H Thompson 30067, Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 15 October 1916
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Private John Christopher St George 5599, South African Infantry Battalion
Died 15 October 1916
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Company Serjeant Major Alex Bessant 11614, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 15 October 1917
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Private Arthur John Young 28497, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 15 October 1917
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Private Daniel Joseph 11308, British West Indies Regiment
Died 15 October 1917
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Private Dennis G Aston 42298, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 15 October 1917
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Private Frederick Harold Fuller S/28579, Rifle Brigade
Died 15 October 1917
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Private James Doughty 14279, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 15 October 1917
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Private John Haywood 23661, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 15 October 1917
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Private Silvester Hamriding Martin 3971, East Lancashire Regiment
Died 15 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Robert Spratt 6484, Nigeria Regiment (Attached from South Wales Borderers) - West African Frontier F
Died 15 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Chief Motor Mechanic Howard Samuel Beresford MB/2684, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Died 15 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class Athol Davaar Lamont M14927, HM Submarine J6
Died 15 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Alexander Robert Masson S/28707, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Died 15 October 1918
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Private Alfred Price 253480, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Died 15 October 1918
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Private Arthur Thomas Hiron 50762, North Staffordshire Regiment
Died 15 October 1918
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Private George Albert Jones 67600, Cheshire Regiment
Died 15 October 1918
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Private Oliver Oscar Alleyne 9024, British West Indies Regiment
Died 15 October 1918
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Serjeant Albert Ashdown G/378, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Died 15 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel The Rev William Henry Emsley , Canadian Army Chaplains
Died 15 October 1919
Lives of the First World War
Trimmer John William Taylor TS 1221, Royal Naval Reserve
Died 15 October 1919
Lives of the First World War