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!
Second Lieutenant George Edward Taylor-Whitehead. Unit: ASquadron, 9th (Queens Royal) Lancers. Death: 29 September 1914 Killed in action at Longueval, Western Front
Died 29 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Louis Napoleon Matheus Walewski. Unit: 29th Dragons, French Army. Death: 29 September 1915 Missing in Action at Navarin Western Front
Died 29 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Henry Charles Mowbray Howard. Unit: 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment. Death: 29 September 1915, missing in action, Loos, Western Front. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial.
Died 29 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Marshall Thomson Allan. Unit: 6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, Bomb Officer in Battalion. Death: 26 September to 29 September 1915, Hohenzollern Redoubt, Western Front. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial.
Died 29 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private William Thomas Thompson served with 'A' Company, 8th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. His service number was 12550. He was married to Annie Thompson of Kettering. He was recorded as missing on 29 September 1915 during the Battle of Loos, aged
Died 29 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Bombardier Alfred Valentine Preston 34905. Unit: C Battery, 160th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 29 September 1916 Western Front
Died 29 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Leonard Moore 5875 or 612202. Unit: Grenade Section, 1st/19th Battalion, London Regiment. Death: 29 September 1916 Missing near Bois des Foureaux Western Front
Died 29 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Thomas C F Taylor 471150. Unit: DCompany, 25th Battalion, Canadian Infantry. Death: 29 September 1916 Western Front
Died 29 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Frederick Arthur Rushworth. Unit: 6th Battlion, Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 29 September 1916 Western Front
Died 29 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant William Wallace. Unit: Royal Scots Fusiliers, attached to 54th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). Death: 29 September 1916 Missing in Action at Thiepval Western Front
Died 29 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Staff Nurse Jessie Smith Paterson, Territorial Force Nursing Service. Died of illness in Macedonia 29 September 1916.
Died 29 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
29 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
29 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Victor Edwin Watts 7453. Unit: 5th Field Artillery Brigade, attached to 2nd Division Signal Company Headquarters, Australian Engineers. Death: 29 September 1917 Killed in Action at Ypres-Menin Road Western Front
Died 29 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Geoffrey Gladstones 1074. Unit: "A" Company, 30th Battalion, 8th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 29 September 1917, killed in action at Polygon Wood, Western Front.
Died 29 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Willie Lawn Wilkinson 37813. Unit: 13th Platoon, D Company, 11th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 29 September 1917 Missing
Died 29 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
29 September 1918
Imperial War Museum
Captain Alan Barrie Duncan MC. Unit: 75th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 29 September 1918 Killed in action Western Front.
Died 29 September 1918
Imperial War Museum
Gunner James Louis Clifford Hirst 71172. Unit: 2nd Reserve Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 29 September 1918, died of wounds, Western Front.
Died 29 September 1918
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Geoffrey Stephen Allfree. Unit: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, HMS Hermione, attached to HM Motor Launch No 247. Death: 29 September 1918 Died Home Waters
Died 29 September 1918
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Geoffrey Stephen Allfree. Unit: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Death: 29 September 1918 Drowned at sea on Active Service Home Waters
Died 29 September 1918
Imperial War Museum