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 Henry Ouseley Davis. Unit: 5th Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 22 October 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Hugh Irving St. John Hartford. Unit: 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. Death: 22 October 1914, missing in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial.
Died 22 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain John Arthur Orr DSO. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders. Death: 22 October 1914 Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Mervyn Keats Sandys , York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 22 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Mervyn Keats Sandys. Unit: 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment. Death: 22 October 1914 Killed at Touquet near Fleurbaix, France in an attempt to recover a lost trench. Reported wounded and missing on 22 October 1914 and 25 October 1914 repo
Died 22 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Ronald Hugh Walrond Rose MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Death: 22 October 1914 Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Thomas Henry Rivers Bulkeley CMG MVO. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 22 October 1914 Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain William Arthur Mould Temple. Unit: 1st Battalion, Gloucester Regiment. Death: 22 October 1914 Wounded on 21st Ocotober 1914, Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Cecil Murphy L/10131, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Died 22 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Frank Collis Clay 9699, Leicestershire Regiment
Died 22 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal William Singleton 7556, Royal Irish Regiment
Died 22 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Almericus John De Courcy Williams , West India Regiment
Died 22 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Athol Benedict Trewman , Middlesex Regiment
Died 22 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Athol Benedict Trewman. Unit: 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 22 October 1914 Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Charles Dunlop , Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Died 22 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Charles Dunlop. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Death: 22 October 1914 Wounded at the Battle of the Aisne Died of wounds at Versailles Western Front.
Died 22 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Charles Roger Ripley , York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 22 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Charles Roger Ripley MID. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment. Death: 22 October 1914 near Lille Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Bertram Edmund Ward , Middlesex Regiment
Died 22 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel Bertram Edmund Ward MID. Unit: Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 22 October 1914 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Frank Cooper Ledgard. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Alexandra Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire Regiment). Death: 22 October 1914 Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Frederick Robert Pollock , Coldstream Guards
Died 22 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant J Litchfield. Unit: 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 22 October 1914 Wounded at Le Bassee Missing since 22 Oct 1914 Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Neville Linton Bridgland , East Surrey Regiment
Died 22 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant William Bernard Webster Lawson. Unit: 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 22 October 1914 At Boesinghe Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant William Bernard Webster Levy-Lawson , Scots Guards
Died 22 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant William Henry Gordon Dods. Unit: 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment. Death: 22 October 1914 Killed in action Western Front.
Died 22 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major William Northey DSO. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Death: 22 October 1914 Died of wounds Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major William Northey, D.S.O. , Durham Light Infantry
Died 22 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Neil Chambers 9483, 1st Dorsetshire Regiment
Died 22 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Christmas Weale 11045, South Wales Borderers
Died 22 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private E Meehan 6925. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 22 October 1914 Missing Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private Frederick Shaw 7153, Leicestershire Regiment
Died 22 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private John Gordon Hopkins L/8247, East Surrey Regiment
Died 22 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Henry Noel Atkinson DSO MID. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. Death: 22 October 1914 Wounded and Missing at Violaines near La Bassee Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
Imperial War Museum