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 Herbert Joseph Freeman , Inniskilling Fusiliers
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Air Mechanic 3rd Class Samuel George Mitchell 280548, Royal Air Force
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Captain Clifford Angus Mallam, M.C. , Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Deck Hand J W Jenkinson 10765DA, Royal Naval Reserve - HM Trawler Peterborough
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Driver David Richard Jehu TS-10287, Army Service Corps
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Driver William Edward Stevens Gooding 610186, Royal Horse Artillery
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Engineman Charles McLoughlin ES 1503, Royal Naval Reserve
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Edward John Parfett 128981, Royal Field Artillery
Died 29 October 1918
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Gunner Irvine Webster 166421, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Arthur Des Vignes 591, British West Indies Regiment
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Robert Walsh 14156, Manchester Regiment
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Mademoiselle Myriss, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 14 880
29 octobre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Major Charles Percy Lionel Balcombe MC and Bar. Unit: 11th Field Compnay, Royal Engineers. Death: 29 October 1918 Died of wounds.
Died 29 October 1918
Imperial War Museum
Petty Officer Stoker John Henry Tilden 292198, H.M.S. "P. 32"
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Ernest Richard Payne 5584, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Frank Henry Papworth 307671, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 29 October 1918
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Private Harry Longbottom 21530, 4th Regiment South African Infantry
Died 29 October 1918
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Private Herbert Ieuan Gray 22102, 2nd Regiment South African Infantry
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private James Ernest Hyland 21036, 1st Regiment South African Infantry
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private John H Orgill 36050, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private John More 20169, 2nd Regiment South African Infantry
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private John Nixon 123250, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Maurice Maybee Harris 241237, East Surrey Regiment
Died 29 October 1918
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Private Thomas Arthur Edward Browne T/270705, East Kent Regiment (Buffs)
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Walter Henry Smith 42742, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private William Henry Millie 96331. Unit: 228th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 29 October 1918 Western Front
Died 29 October 1918
Imperial War Museum
Reserve Nursing Sister Grace Glen Ainsworth , Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Henry Edward Debenham 388018, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Henry George Austen 57422, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Alexander Bruce Forbes , Princess Louise's (Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders)
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Basil Raymond Woodd Cahusac , British West Indies Regiment
Died 29 October 1918
Lives of the First World War