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 James Pyman. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Border Regiment, attached to 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Death: 18 November 1914 Western Front
Died 18 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain John Drysdale Tullis , Royal Scots Fusiliers
Died 18 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain John Drysdale Tullis. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Death: 18 November 1914 Died of wounds in the British Hospital at Wimereux Wounded 11 November 1914 close to the Ch ateau of Hooge near Ypres Western Front
Died 18 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Florence Howard, Territorial Force Nursing Service. Died of septic poisoning 18 November 1914.
Died 18 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Florence Howard, Territorial Force Nursing Service. Died of septic poisoning 18 November 1914.
Died 18 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Hervey Robert Charles Tudway , Grenadier Guards
Died 18 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant James Crosbie Caulfeild , RASC attd. Manchester Regiment
Died 18 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Albert Edward Blewitt 11925, South Wales Borderers
Died 18 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Edward Horne 8691, Hampshire Regiment
Died 18 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Herbert Pears 7721, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 18 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private John William Bamforth 7347, East Yorkshire Regiment
Died 18 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private John William Gilday 9914, Manchester Regiment
Died 18 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Lawrence Ernest Pelham Grubb , 2nd Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 18 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Lawrence Ernest Pelham Grubb 28026. Unit: Royal Engineers, attached to the 2nd Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Death: 18 November 1914, killed in action while leading a charge against a chateau near Hooge, Western Front.
Died 18 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Patrick McDonagh , Royal West Kent Regiment attached to Suffolk Regiment
Died 18 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Patrick McDonagh. Unit: Special Reserve, Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Death: 18 November 1914
Died 18 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Reginald Connor Phillips Wilder , Suffolk Regiment
Died 18 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Reginald Connor Phillips Wilder. Unit: 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Death: 18 November 1914 Killed in Action shot by a sniper while on trench duty. Western Front
Died 18 November 1914
Imperial War Museum