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!
Clerk Lilian Norah Pearce , Voluntary Aid Detachment
Died 19 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Flight Cadet James Copland Sim , 209th Training Depot Station
Died 19 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Francis Knight Lucas 805752, Royal Field Artillery
Died 19 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Miss Lilian Norah Pearce, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of pneumonia 19 November 1918.
Died 19 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
Miss Lilian Norah Pearce, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of pneumonia 19 November 1918.
Died 19 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private Donald Walter Parker 8/40359, Devonshire Regiment
Died 19 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Ernest Frederick Hall 28563, East Surrey Regiment
Died 19 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick George Bailey 51454, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 19 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private J W Blower 61408, 2/1 Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry
Died 19 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private James H Chiles SD/164, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 19 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Walter Camp G-21235, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Died 19 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Frederick Beesley 96390, The Kings (Liverpool Regiment)
Died 19 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Henry Cecil Critchfield 80582, New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Died 19 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Frederick Norman Roberts , Royal Fusiliers
Died 19 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Sergeant Sidney Needes 526, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Died 19 November 1918
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant William Thomas Bromage 1400, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 19 November 1918
Lives of the First World War