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 Arthur Annesley. Unit: 10th (Prince of Wales' Own Royal) Hussars. Death: 16 November 1914 Zillebeke Western Front
Died 16 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Herbert Moline Warner. Unit: 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Death: 16 November 1914 Wounded in action 14 November 1914 near Le Gheer, and died in No.2 Clearing Hospital at Bailleul Western Front
Died 16 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Alan James Dickson. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 16 November 1914 Killed in action Western Front.
Died 16 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Henry Gardiner Burridge. Unit: 107th Pioneers, Indian Army. Death: 16 November 1914 La Bassee Western Front
Died 16 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Robert Randle Egerton. Unit: 1st Field Squadron, Royal Engineers. Death: 16 November 1914 Western Front. Son of Robert Walter and Flora Augusta Egerton, of Stansty Lodge, Wrexham, Denbighshire.
Died 16 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
16 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
16 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
16 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Francis Benjamin Hutton 4516. Unit: 46th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 16 November 1916 Killed in action Western Front
Died 16 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Percy Thompson Fricker 1223. Unit: 22nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 16 November 1916 at Malta from wounds received at Gallipoli, Dardanelles.
Died 16 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Herbert Moline Warner. Unit: 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Death: 16 November 1916 Died of wounds Western Front
Died 16 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Charles John Washbourne 64387. Unit: 13th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 16 November 1916 Missing in Action Western Front
Died 16 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Wilkinson Rothery 11547. Unit: 9th Platoon, 3rd Company, 13th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 16 November 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 16 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Pte Williams was reported wounded and missing on 16 November 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 16 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Arthur Moorhouse. Unit: 8th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Death: 16 November 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 16 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant James Hunt. Unit: 10th Battalion (attached to 8th Battalion), East Lancashire Regiment. Death: 16 November 1916 Killed in action at Beaumont Hamel Western Front
Died 16 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Leicester Frederick Struben. Unit: 7th Dragoon Guards (Princess Royal’s), attached to 70th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 16 November 1916 Missing in action with his pilot Sergeant Evans. Western Front
Died 16 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Serjeant Robert Stovell Evans 25178. Unit: 70th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 16 November 1916 Western Front.
Died 16 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private John William Copeland 17/203. Unit: C Company, 17th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 16 November 1917 Killed in action Western Front
Died 16 November 1917
Imperial War Museum