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!
Lieutenant (Temporary) Kenneth Musgrave. Unit: 6th Service Battalion, The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, attached to 172nd Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 22 March 1915 Western Front age at death 22
Died 22 March 1915
Imperial War Museum
Mrs Edith Simpson, Territorial Force Nursing Service. Died from overwork 22 March 1915.
Died 22 March 1915
Imperial War Museum
Mrs Edith Simpson, Territorial Force Nursing Service. Died from overwork 22 March 1915.
Died 22 March 1915
Imperial War Museum
THE SERVICE OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL G H COOKE IN THE EAST AFRICA CAMPAIGN 1914 - 1918
22 March 1916
Imperial War Museum
Miss Flossie Hamer Lewis, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of strain and overwork 22 March 1917.
Died 22 March 1917
Imperial War Museum
Miss Flossie Hamer Lewis, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of strain and overwork 22 March 1917.
Died 22 March 1917
Imperial War Museum
Bombardier George William Hayward 36006. Unit: "C" Battery, 130th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 22 March 1918, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Captain Harry Hargreaves Simpkin. Unit: 13th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 22 March 1918 Killed at St Leger, Bullecourt Western Front
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Captain Robert Cecil Salisbury. Unit: 19th Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 22 March 1918 Missing near Roupy Western Front
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Cavalry Concentration. Talaat-ed-Dumm : cavalry concentrated overnight for the raid on Es Salt, across the Jordan
22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Arthur Ernest Holroyd 39059. Unit: "D" Company, 9th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Death: 22 March 1918, missing in action, Western Front.
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Sidney J. Goodman GS/3410. Unit: "C" Company, unknown battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 22 March 1918, missing in action, Western Front.
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Gunner Geoffrey Ernest Stephens 201827 MM. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Tank Corps. Death: 22 March 1918 MIA near Bapaume Western Front
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Bertram George Burgess 27926. Unit: 10th Platoon, D Company, 9th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Death: 22 March 1918 Western Front
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Bertram Watson 35631. Unit: 9th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Death: 22 March 1918 Missing in Action Western Front
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Christopher Alison Balden. Unit: Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 22 March 1918
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel John Ryrie Webster DSO MC. Unit: Commanding Officer, 16th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters. Death: 22 March 1918 Killed in Action Western Front.
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Lt Salter was educated at Bancroft's School, Woodford and Camden School of Art. He was appointed cartographer to the British Rainfall Oganisation in 1908. From 1908 - 1916, Lt Salter plotted and drew hundreds of rainfall maps, most of which appeared in
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Pioneer Sergeant William Hector Wright 7012. Unit: B Company, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 22 March 1918 Missing in Action near Epehy Western Front
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private Alfred Howey 24/1687. Unit: 23rd (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 22 March 1918, missing in action, Western Front.
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private Ernest Walter Hughes 19544. Unit: 8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars. Death: 22 March 1918, missing in action, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial.
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private James Finlay 34238. Unit: "B" Company, 9th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Death: 22 March 1918, St. Quentin, Western Front.
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private Joshua Hainsworth 242462. Unit: Lewis gunner, "C" Company, 1st/5th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 22 March 1918, missing in action, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial.
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private Roger Lowdon 35124 MM. Unit: C Company, 1st Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 22 March 1918 Missing Western Front
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private Samuel McClure 46600. Unit: 16th Battalion, Royal Scots. Death: 22 March 1918 Missing in action Western Front
Died 22 March 1918
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Private Samuel McClure 46600. Unit: 16th Battalion, Royal Scots. Death: 22 March 1918 Western Front
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private Tom Speedy 335566. Unit: C Company, 8th Battalion, Royal Scots. Death: 22 March 1918 Missing in the vicinity of Beugny near Cambrai. Western Front
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private William Macleish 46684. Unit: Royal Scots Regiment. Death: 22 March 1918 Missing Western Front
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Rifleman John Somerville R/38956. Unit: 18th Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 22 March 1918 Missing in action Western Front
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Rifleman John Somerville R/38956. Unit: D Company, 18th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 22 March 1918 Missing Western Front
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Second Corporal Robert Sutherland 188362. Unit: J Special Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 22 March 1918 Missing in action Western Front
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Andrew Ledingham. Unit: 4th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 22 March 1918 Missing Western Front
Died 22 March 1918
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Second Lieutenant Frank Cartwright. Unit: D Company, 19th Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Death: 22 March 1918 Missing in action Western Front
Died 22 March 1918
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Second Lieutenant Herbert Leslie Barker. Unit: 12th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment). Death: 22 March 1918
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Philip Carlisle Chambers. Unit: A Company, 2nd Battalion, Tank Corps. Death: 22 March 1918 Missing in action
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Walter Henry Elkington 7321. Unit: 28th Battalion, London Regiment (Artists Rifles), attached to 11th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Death: 22 March 1918 St Emelie Western Front.
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Archibald Taylor 49126. Unit: DCompany, King’s Liverpool Regiment. Death: 22 March 1918 Missing in action
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Henry Davey DCM MM. Service number: 8647. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 22 March 1918 Missing in action
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Herbert Gable 201823. Unit: 11th Battalion, Essex Regiment. Death: 22 March 1918, Western Front
Died 22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Troops Resting on the way to the Jordan Valley : on the Roman road to Jericho
22 March 1918
Imperial War Museum
Elfrida Stella Temple, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of influenza and pneumonia 22 March 1919.
Died 22 March 1919
Imperial War Museum