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!
THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE TO FRANCE, AUGUST-OCTOBER 1914
18 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Charles Fabian Saunders. Unit: C Company, 7th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Death: 18 August 1916 Western Front
Died 18 August 1916
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Lieutenant F Mackay. Unit: Cameron Highlanders. Death: 18 August 1916
Died 18 August 1916
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Lieutenant Thomas Alfred Hooper. Unit: 5th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 18 August 1916, killed in action at Pozieres, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 18 August 1916
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Miss Enid M Kentish, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died August 1916 18 August 1916.
Died 18 August 1916
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Miss Enid M Kentish, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died August 1916 18 August 1916.
Died 18 August 1916
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Private (Cyclist) Herbert Jackson 1266/225306. Unit: C Company, 5th Battalion, attached to 8th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 18 August 1916 Western Front
Died 18 August 1916
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Private Charles Arthus Levens. Unit: 5th Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces. Death: 18 August 1916
Died 18 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Joseph Gandell 19059. Unit: 7th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Death: 18 August 1916, Guillemont, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 18 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private William Cameron S/10244. Unit: 8th Platoon, "B" Company, 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Death: 18 August 1916, Somme, Western Front.
Died 18 August 1916
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Private William Gilchrist S/10229. Unit: 5th Platoon, "B" Company, 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Death: 18 August 1916, Bois des Foureaux, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 18 August 1916
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Pte Oliphant, who had transferred from 11 to 2 Battalion, was reported missing, aged 38, on 18 August 1916 at Longueval during the Battle of the Somme. He is buried at Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval.
Died 18 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Fitzmaurice Valentine Scoones. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Death: 18 August 1916 Died in training with Black Watch United Kingdom
Died 18 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant George Francis Haydon. Unit: "C" Battery, 175th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 18 August 1916, missing in action, Somme, Western Front.
Died 18 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant George Futvoye Marsden-Smedley. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Death: 18 August 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 18 August 1916
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Captain William Hope Walker. Unit: Royal Flying Corps. Death: 18 August 1917 Missing in Action Western Front
Died 18 August 1917
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Lieutenant Reginald Lindsay. Unit: 11th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, transferred to the Royal Flying Corps (on 18 August 1917). Death: not known.
Died 18 August 1917
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Major Stewart Hugh Joseph. Unit: Commanding 227th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 18 August 1917 Western Front.
Died 18 August 1917
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Rifleman Arthur Thomas Gooch 41840. Unit: 7th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 18 August 1917, missing in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Died 18 August 1917
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Second Lieutenant George Bernard Hooper. Unit: "D" Company, unknown battalion, London Regiment. Death: 18 August 1917, missing in action, believed to be taken prisoner.
Died 18 August 1917
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