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 Richard Long Dawson MID. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards (Reserve of Officers). Death: 20 November 1914 Killed in action at Zillebeke Western Front.
Died 20 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Charles Edward Mundy 7953, Lincolnshire Regiment
Died 20 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Gunner John Edwin Cornish 17688, Royal Field Artillery
Died 20 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Alfred Felix Schuster , 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars
Died 20 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Alfred Felix Schuster. Unit: Special Reserve, 4th (Queen’s Own) Hussars. Death: 20 November 1914 Killed in action in most advanced trench at Hooge near Ypres. Western Front
Died 20 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Cecil Reginald Crymble , Royal Irish Fusiliers - Princess Victoria's
Died 20 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Cecil Reginald Crymble. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers. Death: 20 November 1914 Killed in action near Armentieres Western Front
Died 20 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Edgar Leake Wateridge , Leicestershire Regiment
Died 20 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant MacLean Proctor Dilworth , Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 20 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Maclean Proctor Dilworth. Unit: 1st Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Death: 20 November 1914 Killed in action Western Front.
Died 20 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Miss Eileen Mary O'Gorman, Territorial Force Nursing Service. Died November 1914 20 November 1914.
Died 20 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private Robert Stranaghan 7955, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Died 20 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Archer Chernocke Downes , Cheshire Regiment
Died 20 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Archer Chernocke Downes. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. Death: 20 November 1914 Western Front.
Died 20 November 1914
Imperial War Museum